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Vancouver Farmers Market reports SNAP spending declining

‘Change will have a significant impact on our shoppers’’

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Volunteer Tim Aufmuth processes an EBT card at the information booth at the Vancouver Farmers Market in November 2020. SNAP spending at the market fell Saturday, as federal funding for the food assistance program ran dry. (The Columbian files)

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending plummeted at the Vancouver Farmers Market Nov. 1, just as funding for the program ran dry.

The market is a big local distributor of the food assistance program, which was paused this weekend after the federal government ran out of money to fund it.

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