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Topic: food assistance

Woman pushing shopping cart in supermarket aisle (Getty Images/David Espejo)

Colorado's staggering SNAP backlog

Michael La Corte
Students eating lunch in a school cafeteria (Getty Images/JGI/Tom Grill)

Minnesota Gov. defends free school meals

Michael La Corte
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35% rise in hunger in the U.S.

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

New SNAP rule will punish the hungry

Jim Pugh - In These Times
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"They go to work, come back, and starve"

Elizabeth Hewitt - Civil Eats
Jazmine Headley, center, joins attorney Brian Neary and her mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. (AP/Mike Catalini)

How we punish working mothers

Amanda Marcotte
A woman and her daughter shop for groceries using Food Stamps. (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Ban the box: But fix food stamps

Amanda Marcotte
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Trump's budget vision: Ugly

Chauncey DeVega
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Job-hunting while hungry

Darlena Cunha
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Katie McDonough

Prachi Gupta
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Katie McDonough
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Katie McDonough
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Katie McDonough
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