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Feeding Houston's hungry: 1M pounds of food daily for needy

by Anita SnowJohn L. Mone
| October 26, 2020 12:03 AM

HOUSTON (AP) — In car lines that can stretch half a mile (0.8 kilometers), workers who lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic and other needy people receive staggering amounts of food distributed by the Houston Food Bank. On some days, the hundreds of sites supplied by the country's largest food bank collectively get 1 million pounds.

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