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Food banks and SNAP recipients express alarm at a possible funding reduction in the upcoming farm bill
By: Theo Peck-Suzuki | Report for America
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) — Every month, Jody Dearth’s EBT card gets loaded up with the bare minimum of supplementary income to help cover the cost of groceries. This… Read More
The hidden faces of hunger in America
By: Olivia Hampton | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Heather Thomas can count out the tragedies that pulled her family of eight into poverty. She and her husband lost their jobs and home, their small… Read More
Food banks seek financial relief as food for one in six Ohioans is on the line
By: Theo Peck-Suzuki | Report for America
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) – In October 2021 – before the war in Ukraine, before the baby formula shortage, and long before the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to… Read More
Funding losses and high prices force food bank to close down mobile distribution program
By: Theo Peck-Suzuki | Report for America
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GALLIPOLIS, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) — The Southeast Ohio Food Bank’s mobile food market is set up like a drive through. Cars pull in at one end of the Gallia… Read More
Marshall University Sets Benefit for Food Bank
By: Associated Press
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two authors with West Virginia ties will deliver readings at Marshall University this week to benefit the Facing Hunger Foodbank. The event is at 7 p.m…. Read More