Already contending with high inflation and rising interest rates, Americans are bracing for the prospect of economic calamity if the White House and congressional Republicans don’t agree on a path to keep the U.S. from defaulting on its debt.
Shannon Galloway, a Gold Star mother of three biological teenagers and two foster children, relies solely on benefits she has received from the government since her husband died in June 2009.
“I do work every day, but I don’t have a job outside of the home,” she added. “So those benefits literally are how we pay our mortgage, how we pay our utilities, how we pay daily cost of living — gas and groceries and just everything.” Dave Allen runs a food pantry in southwest Detroit that gets about one-third of its funds from a program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. If the FEMA money doesn't come through, it would affect more than just Allen. Last month alone his food pantry served 717 people, he said, or roughly 125 households.Otherwise, he said, “I would see a huge amount of people who are hungry and not getting their needs met. It’s hard to imagine that.
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