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‘A hunger Grand Canyon’: Concerns surge in New York as COVID-era benefits are set to end on March 1

By Dean Moses

Posted on February 23, 2023

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Elected officials and anti-hunger outreach groups on Thursday called upon the state government to increase food funding as COVID-era benefits are set to expire next month.

New Yorkers lined around the block on 86th Street and West End Avenue on Feb. 23 while clinging to empty carts. The group — made up of ages ranging from children to the elderly — waited for the food distribution handed out by the West Side Campaign Against Hunger.

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‘A hunger Grand Canyon’: Concerns surge in New York as COVID-era benefits are set to end on March 1

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