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A Dillons grocery store closed. Three central Topeka census tracts became federally designated food deserts. Now a local movement aims to fill the gap.
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Schools around Kansas City have been able to provide meals to thousands of children for free, regardless of their family’s income, thanks to federal legislation passed during the pandemic. Now, districts are worried that Congress will let those waivers expire.
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The Winter Paralympics are beginning in Beijing, where Topeka native Dan Cnossen will compete as one of the world's best Paralympian cross-country skiers. Plus, Missouri food stamp applicants are suing over the state over a "dysfunctional" system that's shutting them out of benefits.
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Food banks find themselves struggling with a shortage of donations amid an increase in prices and demand from families needing help.
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The greatest number of volunteers and donations to food pantries and kitchens occur at holiday time, but people go hungry 365 days of the year.
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About half of the 47,000 SNAP applications that Missouri received in September were rejected. That’s a 60% increase from the number of applications rejected in July.
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A new report from the USDA shows SNAP benefits have a bigger impact on rural economies.
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Hickman Mills is just one school district in the Kansas City metro area whose students may have to bring their lunches, if there's any food at home.
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While pandemic food aid programs have ended, organizations like Cross-Lines are searching for long-term solutions to increase food access.
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Federal COVID-19 relief boosted SNAP payments. But some states have ended their disaster declarations to speed up the economic recovery even as advocates warn that some people will go hungry.
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Gov. Mike Parson stopped all federal pandemic-related unemployment programs, effective June 12, in the hopes of incentivizing people to return to the workforce.
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For households with kids, the percentage who didn't know where their next meal was coming from jumped from 13.6 to 28 percent since the coronavirus struck.