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Persistent hunger: Many Mainers struggling to find food
Read about soup kitchens, food pantries, and the more than 200,000 residents who regularly depend on donated meals in this four-part package from Tux Turkel.
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More than 200,000 residents regularly depend on food that moves through an enormous distribution system into a statewide network of pantries and meal programs.
Millions of pounds of pitted produce and outdated cakes still fill the plates of hungry Mainers, feed livestock or become compost. If anyone tells you different, that's garbage.
Single parents and elderly residents, many of whom lack the income to cover their housing, transportation, food, utilities and medical costs, are especially dependent on pantries
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