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Federal cuts squeeze already-struggling food banks, school lunch programs

Food Program Cuts

Free food is distributed to residents in need at a weekly food bank at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn on Feb. 28, 2024, in New York City.

For the Day Eagle Hope Project, federal money has helped volunteers deliver fresh produce and meat to families in need across the remote Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in northern Montana � while putting cash into the hands of farmers, ranchers and meat processors.

The nonprofit generally has less than $300,000 to spend per year. So the $200,000 from a U.S. Department of Agriculture local food buying program drastically raised both the quantity and quality of the food it could distribute.





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