Oh SNAP! PBS News Hour Devotes First 14 Minutes to Supposed US Hunger Crisis

The PBS News Hour devoted the first 14 minutes of Monday’s show to the supposedly dire emergency that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits, known colloquially as food stamps) ran out two days ago during the ongoing federal government “shutdown” before a ruling that the government must fund the food aid.

First up, a Lisa Desjardins report from various food banks across the country and found long food lines just two days afterward, after a month of harbingers that this might happen.