Food Stamps Were Never Meant to Be Long-Term

Duluth News Tribune published this Friday, April 3

I was probably too young when I learned what “writing a hot check” meant. In my house, it usually meant groceries.

My parents worked constantly, but it never quite cut it. Most months involved decisions about which bills could wait and which couldn’t.

Years later, working in social services across northern Minnesota—including communities like Duluth—I saw those same struggles up close in the lives of the people I served.

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