Reliance on food stamps increasing (Daily Chronicle)
With the rising cost of living, more DeKalb families are turning to food stamps. But with food prices soaring, those stamps don’t stretch as far as they once did.
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With the rising cost of living, more DeKalb families are turning to food stamps. But with food prices soaring, those stamps don’t stretch as far as they once did.
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