#food-insecurity

#food-insecurity

Billie Eilish has a message for the world's most prominent billionaires: Give your money away, shorties. "I love you all, but there are a few people here with a lot more money than me," she said. "If you're a billionaire-why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties," she said at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards.

The ladies all come in and go, 'guess what I did with those plums I got last time?' We share recipes, we talk and it's like a big family,

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh in California, is a critical lifeline that helps 5.5 million low-income residents in the state pay for groceries. RELATED: How to help: Where the hungry can find food and others can give as SNAP benefits cut off But those benefits, which can be up to $785 per month for a family of three, are set to expire on Nov. 1 as the Trump administration has said it won't dip into $5 billion in contingency funds to help sustain the program. A federal judge is expected to issue a ruling ahead of Saturday on whether the government can cut off the funding to the program.

"For every one meal the food bank provides, SNAP generally provides nine," said Lee, who said she relied on CalFresh benefits while raising her two children. "We usually think of food insecurity, famine in other countries. Here we are in this country, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, talking about how we mobilize to feed people," she continued. "Shame and disgrace."