When Snags in Supply Chains mean people don't get what they need to eat.

I'm David Brankachio. Members of Congress are calling on the Agriculture Department

to fix supply chain problems disrupting food programs

affecting some Native Americans and some older Americans. The lawmakers call it a

dire situation, Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser, explains.

Three bipartisan groups of lawmakers have sent letters to the Agriculture Department.

They say tribes and food banks that rely on supplies from the USDA distribution programs are reporting empty shelves

because promised food deliveries never came. Others say they received

expired food. Reports of incomplete delayed or missing food deliveries came after the department switched to just one contractor for the programs last April.

It was reportedly the only company that met the requirements for the contract.

The Agriculture Department plans to bring in the Defense Department's Logistics Agency to help.

It's also offering at least $11 million to tribes to help them buy food.

USDA says about 53,000 households on tribal reservations depend on the food distributions

and more than 700,000 seniors rely on a different program that's also plagued with delays

and shortages.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

Most Americans support government action on climate change, but a growing minority worry curbing climate change will hurt the economy.

That's according to data from Stanford University and resources for the future.

It's a survey that's been going on since 1997.

Marketplace's Daniel Ackerman has that.

This year's survey found 36% of respondents thought climate action would harm the economy.

That's up from 29% four years ago.

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