North Dakota provides $1.5 million for food, federal aid programs

  • Interim Health and Human Services Commissioner Pat Traynor discusses how the state is working to fund a federal assistance program for new mothers and young children during the federal government shut down. Photo by Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor
    Interim Health and Human Services Commissioner Pat Traynor discusses how the state is working to fund a federal assistance program for new mothers and young children during the federal government shut down. Photo by Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor
    Government shutdown threatens nutrition assistanceNorth Dakota is using $1.5 million in Department of Health and Human Services general fund money to address food insecurity across the state exacerbated by the federal government shutdown.The agency has granted $915,000 to the Great Plains Food Bank, which Gov. Kelly Armstrong said has gone to purchase more than 450,000 pounds of f...

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