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    Casino Shutdown Batters Town, Forces Mayor To The Food Bank

    May 28, 2020

    West Wendover Mayor Daniel Corona visited the local food bank recently, but not for a photo op. He was there to get something to eat.

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    People load their vehicles with boxes of food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank earlier this month in Los Angeles. Food banks across the United States are seeing numbers and people they have never seen before amid unprecedented unemployment from the CO
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    Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger

    May 22, 2020
    The charitable organizations called food banks are getting a lot of attention and donations right now. But they aren't nearly as important or effective as SNAP, formerly known as food stamps.
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    Las Vegas Food Bank Demand Increased 30 Percent

    Apr 23, 2020

    Pre-pandemic, the Three Square food bank in Las Vegas distributed roughly 1 million pounds of food per week. Now, that number has increased to 1.3 million pounds of food. 

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    Supermarket Steps Up To Buy From Farmers, Dairies And Donate To Food Banks

    Apr 23, 2020
    Publix doesn't want food to go to waste during the coronavirus pandemic. So it's buying it from farmers and dairies and then will donate it to food banks which are overwhelmed by demand.
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    Together Inc. food bank workers distribute food at a drive-through location in Omaha, Neb., last week. Disruptions in the agricultural supply chain caused by the coronavirus pandemic are making it difficult for food banks.
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    Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places

    Apr 03, 2020
    Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places. Farmers are dumping milk and vegetables that they can't sell.
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    Volunteer Earl Banks guides a load of food to a waiting van at a Denver branch of the Volunteers of America.
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    Coronavirus Drives Away Volunteers Just As They're Needed Most

    Apr 03, 2020
    Many food banks and homeless shelters depend on volunteers. But fewer are showing up at a time when the need for these services is skyrocketing.
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    Feeding Your Family (and Yourself) During the Coronavirus Crisis

    Mar 18, 2020

    Among the concerns of those finding themselves without work, one of the most basic and immediate is, “How will I feed my family?”

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    Even with visits to the local food pantry, many families struggle to get enough to eat. Food banks say rethinking our donations could help them stretch their money.
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    OPINION: Being Hungry In America Is Hard Work. Food Banks Need Your Help

    Jun 30, 2019
    Even with visits to the local pantry, many families struggle to get enough to eat, as writer Tamara Gane knows first-hand. Food banks say rethinking our donations could help them stretch their money.
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    Where the Next Meal Is Coming From

    Sep 28, 2017

    Food insecurity haunts thousands of Las Vegans, but a network of charities is tackling the problem — with surprising efficiency.

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    Dorothy Boddie runs the outreach ministry at Allen Chapel AME, one of the Capital Area Food Bank's nonprofit partners. The D.C.-area food bank is part of a growing trend to move toward healthier options in food assistance, because many in the population
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    One Of America's Biggest Food Banks Just Cut Junk Food By 84 Percent In A Year

    Sep 18, 2017
    D.C'.s Capital Area Food Bank is part of a growing trend to move toward healthier options in food assistance, because many in the population it serves suffer from high blood pressure and diabetes.
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    Angelette Hamilton works as a patient navigator at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, helping patients get social services. After Kaiser started offering patients this sort of support, one study found a 40 percent reduction in emergency room use.
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    Your ZIP Code Might Be As Important To Health As Your Genetic Code

    Aug 04, 2017
    Health care forms increasingly ask about more than just medical history. That's because doctors are beginning to understand that patients' stress, and how and where they live, influence health, too.
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    Fresh fruits and vegetables stocked inside one of the trucks used in Foodlink's Curbside Market program, which sells fresh foods at affordable prices to poor communities.
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    Beyond Pantries: This Food Bank Invests In The Local Community

    Aug 01, 2017
    Normally, food banks distribute donated food to the hungry. But Rochester, NY, food bank Foodlink, is going beyond that to provide fresh foods to poor communities and jobs to boost the local economy.
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    Roanoke Police Captain Rick Morrison at the former city nightclub, Ms. Choc's Lounge, which will be turned into a new Community Solutions Center.
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    In Some Rural Counties, Hunger Is Rising, But Food Donations Aren't

    May 22, 2017
    Pantries in southwest Virginia — where poverty is rampant and coal jobs are vanishing — will take whatever they can get to stock bare shelves. Some also offer help with health care and job training.
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    Franklin Sherman Elementary students Nicola Hopper, 11, Jake Hensley, 11, and Aya Hopper, 10, transport collected food from their school to McLean Baptist Church, located across the street from the school.
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    When Food Banks Say No To Sugary Junk, Schools Offer A Solution

    Nov 23, 2016
    Food banks are increasingly saying no to cakes, holiday candy and other junk food donations. But some schools are sending them healthier donations by salvaging uneaten foods in their cafeterias.
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    Two people at a food pantry in Portland, Maine, choose items from a display of produce. Several food banks around the country have been trying something new to get people to choose healthier foods. And it's working.
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    Food Pantries Try Nutritional Nudging To Encourage Good Food Choices

    Nov 07, 2016
    Simply shuffling the shelves may be a powerful way to help those living in poverty choose healthier options, a nationwide study of food banks suggests.
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    Kate Markie (left) and Debra Blakely, volunteers for Grow Well Missouri, pass out seeds to food pantry shoppers at Central Pantry in Columbia, Mo., in hopes of encouraging them to start their own gardens.
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    Missouri Food Pantries Help Clients Grow Their Own Produce

    Jun 26, 2015
    Fresh fruits and vegetables can be hard to come by for low-income people who rely on food pantries. So some aid programs are now handing out seeds and plants and teaching clients to grow their own.
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    Hunger In Southern Nevada

    Dec 11, 2013

    About 340,000 people or 16 percent of the population in Southern Nevada are considered food insecure.
    Often, these people come from middle class backgrounds

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