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One in five residents in St. Louis relies on SNAP benefits. That’s over 50,000 residents who are in need of food assistance. The City of St. Louis created a fund to help fill the gap created by the recent pause in the government’s SNAP program.
![Santiago Bianco, 31, of Gravois Park, shops for fresh produce on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, at MARSH Grocery Cooperative in Carondelet. “I felt like I was having a pretty good day, until I learned [MARSH was] closing and I was a little distraught,” Bianco said of the community co-operative that opened in 2020 with a ‘pay what you can’ model. “Now I have to find a new place to get my groceries and prepared meals.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2a8d92c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1688+0+0/resize/960x540!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd2%2Fab%2Ffdd578f3465ea16c27cf95c670f2%2F071223-bm-marsh-6.jpg)
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