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Pennsylvania’s Food Stamp Enrollment on the Rise, Approaching Early Pandemic Levels

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Enrollment in food stamps, has gone up and down during the pandemic. But WESA’s Kate Giammarise reports, numbers have been steadily increasing in recent months.

Read the full story at: https://www.wesa.fm/economy-business/2022-03-21/pennsylvanias-food-stamp-enrollment-is-climbing-toward-levels-not-seen-since-the-early-pandemic

(Original air-date: 3/22/22)

Kate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.