Poverty Is a Major Issue in the Midterms

Poverty Is a Major Issue in the Midterms
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My friend here in rural Pennsylvania is the director of our local anti-hunger program. It's orchestrated through the YMCA and has been ongoing for years, mostly providing supplemental food for rural children. But the program started running at full throttle when Covid hit in March 2020, and now, more than two years later, my friend tells me they're doing about 25 food distributions a month — more than they were doing at the height of Covid. What's more, he's seeing twice the number of people lining up for free food, and 85 percent of those...

 



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