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Northeast: Supermarket Closures Leave Food Pantries Scrambling

May 6, 2016 Ashley Rose Kane

It was 8:40 a.m. on a recent sunny, spring-like day. In addition to the birds chirping, chatter could be heard as a line from the front of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church wrapped around Sackett

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South Philadelphia: Philabundance Gives Food to Those in Need

June 12, 2015

A small crowd began to gather just after noon under an Interstate 95 overpass at the corner of Front and Tasker streets. People of different races and ages started to form a line. Some had

West Philadelphia

West Philadelphia: Fresh For All Program Feeds Residents

May 31, 2012

It’s hard to miss the mass of people lined up between Spruce and 49th streets on a Wednesday afternoon. They are racially mixed with young and old, but one thing they have in common is

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