Washington, D.C. – Right now, the Nationwide Grocers Affiliation (NGA), the commerce affiliation representing the impartial grocery store trade, issued the next assertion from NGA President & CEO Greg Ferrara:
“Right now, for the primary time because the program’s creation, Congress allowed funding to expire for the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP), limiting the power for hundreds of thousands of low-income People to entry the nutritious meals wanted to feed themselves and their households.
The present disruption to SNAP funding is prone to have far-reaching penalties for native grocers, their staff, and the communities they assist feed.
Unbiased grocers are sometimes the one supply of recent produce, dairy, and different nutritious necessities for hundreds of thousands of households, veterans, and seniors who depend on federal vitamin help to make ends meet. With SNAP fueling over 389,000 American jobs and creating over $20 billion in wages, the disruption to program funding might result in decreased worker hours, perishable meals losses, and declining gross sales for a lot of group grocers throughout our nation.
Native grocers take part in SNAP as a result of they consider that no American ought to go hungry and are dedicated to serving their neighbors and group members in want. NGA urges Congress to behave swiftly to finish the shutdown and restore funding for this important meals help program.”
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In regards to the Nationwide Grocers Affiliation
NGA is the nationwide commerce affiliation representing the retail and wholesale group grocers that comprise the impartial sector of the meals distribution trade. An impartial retailer is a privately owned or managed meals retail firm working a wide range of codecs. The impartial grocery sector is accountable for about 1.2 p.c of the nation’s general financial system and is liable for producing greater than $250 billion in gross sales, 1.1 million jobs, $39 billion in wages and $36 billion in taxes. NGA members embody retail and wholesale grocers positioned in each congressional district throughout the nation, in addition to state grocers’ associations, producers and repair suppliers. For extra details about NGA, go to www.nationalgrocers.org.
