ABC News Nearly a third of state used food stamps in MayMontgomery AdvertiserMore than 1.4 million Ala bamians — nearly a third of its residents — received food stamps in the month of May as Alabama dug out of the brutal April tornadoes. "That's never happened be fore, even when …
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Read More »14 Minnesota farmers’ markets now accept food stamps – Pioneer Press
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Read More »Residents in rural Mendota might lose post office – Westport-News
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