Long Island Cares, Island Harvest food programs affected by USDA assistance cuts
A shipment of just over 250,000 pounds of food that Long Island Cares — The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank was expecting this week from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was canceled "with no explanation," the food bank's president says.
And the Island's other food bank, Island Harvest, reported that $1.7 million in funds for a senior meal program was "frozen," and the organization is unsure it will get that money amid the cutbacks to emergency food programs announced by the USDA earlier this month.