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Local Verde Communities Hunger Update

5,000 persons, out of 11,000 eligible in Yavapai County, participate in the WIC Program (Women, Infants and Children) managed by the Department of Public Health. DES reports that as of October 2009 SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – food stamps) recipients in the Verde Valley numbered 9,319 or about 12.7% of the total population. St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix recently announced... 

Crisis of Hunger in US and AZ Verde Valley

Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, just released Hunger in America 2010, the largest study of domestic hunger, providing comprehensive and statistically-valid data on our emergency food distribution system and the people Feeding America serves.  The study is extremely detailed, drawing on data from more than 61,000 interviews with clients and surveys of 37,000... 
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