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Food Stamp Cuts Create High Demand For Food Bank Supplies

Marisol Bello | USA Today | November 4, 2013

Food banks across the country, stretched thin in the aftermath of the recession, are bracing for more people coming through their doors in the wake of cuts to the federal food stamp program. Food stamp benefits to 47 million Americans were cut starting Friday as a temporary boost to the federal program comes to an end without new funding from a deadlocked Congress.

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