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Nearly half of all churches and other faith institutions help people get enough to eat

  • Written by Brad R. Fulton, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management, Indiana University
imageA church in St. Paul, Minn., distributed food obtained through a USDA program in December 2020.Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

Almost half of U.S. congregations participate in some kind of food distribution program. While the government’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program was helping...

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