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Officials believe that about 44,000 additional Connecticut residents could be eligible for SNAP benefits.
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Raytheon Technologies has awarded Connecticut Foodshare $1.5 million to help increase food access in communities across the state experiencing high food insecurity.
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Food prices have risen 10% in the U.S. in the last year, making groceries even harder to afford for low-income people. In Connecticut, 12% of residents don’t have access to adequate nutrition. Fridgeport is one of half a dozen community fridges run through mutual aid that have popped in the state in the last few years to help meet that need.
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WHEAT of West Haven distributes food to about 300 to 350 families a month – a number that’s gone up during the pandemic.
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Connecticut students to continue getting free, nutritious meals this summer and upcoming school yearThere’s relief for Connecticut families after Congress extended a bill to offer free summer meals for children statewide. And school districts will receive a higher reimbursement rate per meal in the upcoming school year.
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We have a complicated relationship with our food. We need food to live; yet, we've become removed from the food we eat and how it's grown and processed.…
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More than 30,000 suddenly unemployed Connecticut residents became SNAP beneficiaries in the months since the coronavirus pandemic began in March. Now they…
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Beyond the gleaming office towers overlooking I-95 in Stamford and the pleasure boats that frequent the city’s marinas, thousands of city residents are…
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A line of people bundled in thick coats, scarves and gloves formed along the outer edges of a small parking lot earlier this month at Elm Ridge Park in…
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Tens of thousands have died in Yemen as a Saudi-led bombing campaign continues to fuel a devastating civil war. And the U.S. has been fueling military…