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Happy Halloween. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of

today's top stories. It's Friday, October 31st. Two federal judges ordered the Trump

administration today to continue funding the federal food benefit program known as SNAP. The administration

is expected to appeal. Meanwhile, before today's ruling, Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell declared a

civil emergency to help people who were at risk of losing their food assistance benefits.

The proclamation will allow the city to provide as much as $4 million a month to food banks if SNAP benefits are cut off.

Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, is sharing his perspective into the company's latest round of layoffs,

which affected 14,000 corporate positions. During a corporate earnings call yesterday,

Jassy told investors, this week's cuts weren't driven by finances or artificial intelligence,

but culture. If you grow as fast as we did for several years, the size of businesses,

the number of people, the number of locations, the types of businesses you're in, you end up with

a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers.

Jassy says that's weakened and slowed down Amazon's leadership ability to make quick

decisions and maintain the company's culture of operating like the world's largest startup.

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