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Loaves and Fishes expects to serve a record number of people and families in need this Thanksgiving. The increased demand comes amid a year of high food prices and reduced SNAP benefits.
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Households will no longer receive a second payment on their EBT card toward the end of the month, as they have been since March 2020, as the emergency allotments expire next month.
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The economic slowdown that came with the coronavirus pandemic put a squeeze on Charlotte's food pantries. As people lost jobs and income, demand rose and pantries have scrambled to keep food supply flowing. Now, those pantries are working to recover, too.
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Two Charlotte-area food programs founded in the mid-1970s are merging. Loaves & Fishes and Friendship Trays say the merger will bring savings, such as combining staffs and sharing office space.
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After big declines the past few years in the number of families who need help putting food on the table, food crises essentially flattened in Mecklenburg…
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In Mecklenburg County, the number of families who need help putting food on the table has decreased dramatically this year. That's according to Loaves and…
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Thousands of Charlotte families are eating a Thanksgiving meal that was provided by food pantries. Beverly Howard is the director of the 19 Loaves and…
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Poverty is one the rise in the Carolinas. The Census Bureau announced Thursday morning that almost 100,000 more people were driven into poverty last year…