Thursday, April 30, 2009

Northwest Herald | Study finds rise in Ill. poverty

 

Food banks are seeing a big surge in individuals and families requesting assistance, and the Illinois Department of Human Services says the state’s emergency food program has distributed 36 percent more food in the first three quarters of the state’s 2009 fiscal year, which began last July, than it did in the entire previous year.

Northwest Herald | Study finds rise in Ill. poverty

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