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GodsBigBlog: Hunger in America — It’s Real

September 3, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

My writer colleague Laura Willis reports from Sewannee, Tennessee, that the economic crisis is hitting people pretty hard in the Southern Cumberland Plateau. Hundreds of people stood in line for hours to receive food . . . .

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