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It’s been 60 years since LBJ made food stamps permanent to end hunger, but food insecurity is still high
J. Jhondi Harrell, the founder and executive director of the Center for Returning Citizens (TCRC), remembers life before food stamps. When he was 12, his father, a long-distance truck driver, had a heart attack. That was in 1967, and the family’s economic …