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Deadline Looms for Food Stamp Families
Jarrett Murphy |
Beyond the shutdown, and besides the debt-ceiling deadline, another date approaches for cuts to the Food Stamp program on which some 1.9 million New Yorkers depend.
Beyond the shutdown, and besides the debt-ceiling deadline, another date approaches for cuts to the Food Stamp program on which some 1.9 million New Yorkers depend.
The city’s participatory budgeting experiment moves into its third cycle, with Brooklyn more deeply bought in than the other boroughs.
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