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Food Banks in Danger
Comments 0 | Recommend 0May 28, 2008 - 5:03PM
Food banks in the U.S. are seeing a rise in demand of about 25 percent, most from middle-class people hit hard by rising food and gas prices.
But these aid organizations depend on charity, which suffers in an economic downturn.
Congress has authorized another 100-million-dollars for emergency assistance. That money will be available in October.
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