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During the pandemic, SNAP rules were relaxed so students weren’t required to participate in state or federally funded work programs such as work-study. Those temporary pandemic rules allowed 3 million more students to qualify for food stamps, but now many are no longer eligible.
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The food co-op aimed to provide food insecure residents with healthy products, but low business and dwindling grant money forced it to close.
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While there is a Schnucks and Aldi on the same road, Walmart’s closure in the lower-income community will limit options for residents, experts say.
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The box sits just outside Scott Elementary School, located adjacent to the base's southwest corner.
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After the end of pandemic-era free meals, schools are reporting rising school meal debt and fewer kids in their free and reduced price programs.
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Leah Lee founded Growing Food Growing People to fill a void of representation in the farming community. She’ll be instructing an eight-week class called Gardening 101.
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Officials previously said the summer emergency food benefits program would be dispersed by the end of the year. Achieving that goal looks increasingly unlikely.
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Artinces Smith wants to coach people interested in a vegan lifestyle.
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Despite a federal lawsuit, callers to the state hotline handling Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program waited on hold an average of an hour and a half in August before being connected to agents.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Education Program (SNAP-Ed) is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and helps SNAP recipients learn how to eat healthy food on a budget. Its employees complain of wages so low that they themselves qualify for SNAP.