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  • An end to SNAP emergency allotments hurting rural communities in Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, among others

    Matt Volz, Kaiser Health News|Mar 16, 2023

    ELKO, Nev. - On a cold morning in early February, Tammy King prepared and loaded boxes and bags of vegetables, fruits, milk, frozen meat, and snacks into cars lined up outside the Friends in Service Helping food pantry, known in rural northeastern Nevada as FISH. The beginning of the month is busy for the food pantry, King said, because people who receive benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, come to stock up on free food that helps them stretch...

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