CT food pantries, bracing for federal cuts, secure $9 million in state budget

CT Mirror – Friday, July 11, 2025
By Janhavi Munde

It was a bittersweet victory.

After years of lobbying for more state funding, Connecticut’s food pantries secured $9 million in the biennium budget passed by lawmakers last month — $3 million for the coming fiscal year and $6 million in the following year, far more than the annual $850,000 previous budgets had allocated.

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