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Food banks face virus dilemma: More demand, fewer volunteers

by Associated Press
| March 19, 2020 12:03 AM

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With the new coronavirus leaving many people at least temporarily out of work, food banks and pantries across the U.S. are scrambling to meet an expected surge in demand, even as older volunteers have been told to stay home and calls for social distancing have complicated efforts to package and distribute food.

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