As COVID changes the face of need in CT, poverty-fighting agency doubles space in downtown Danbury
“The agency also helps administer the federal food stamps initiative known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
Meanwhile the coronavirus continues the stifle the economy and put families into crisis because ‘they can’t get a job or their bills are just too high.’
With COVID, we see people come through who have never heard of us,’ James said. ‘They tell us, we didn’t know you existed, and we tell them, ‘You didn’t know we existed because you never needed us before.'”