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Food aid strain grows as costs hit working poor
Across Albuquerque and beyond rising housing and fuel prices squeeze budgets as welfare reform shifts more people off welfare. Food banks report higher demand, with 10 million U.S. families lacking adequate food access in 1996-98. Local programs in New Mexico and Arizona struggle to meet needs amid limited inventories and rising winter heating bills.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Joe Cailteux
Salvation Army
U.S. Conference of Mayors
US. Agriculture Department
U.S
Paulette LoMonaco
Good Shepherd Services
New York City
Margaret Trujillo
Dec
Energy Department
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
General Accounting Office
Doug O’brien
America’s Second Harvest
Food Bank
Agriculture
Shirley Watkins
Roadrunner Food Bank
Melody Wattenbarger
New Mexico
Wattenbarger
Fred Grandy
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill
Garrett Harder
U.S. Agriculture Department
Victoria Soto
Robin Harder
Joseph Garcia
Trujillo