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Speaker 1: We will probably be getting more clients. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's going to be fifty. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's going to be one hundred. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's going to be more.

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Speaker 2: Elena Schreckenberger runs the Austin Brighton Opportunity Center, part of

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Speaker 2: a citywide network of food pantries by Action for Boston

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Speaker 2: Community Development.

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Speaker 3: They are very concerned about where their next meal is

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Speaker 3: going to be.

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Speaker 2: State hunger groups like Project Bred say without SNAP, local

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Speaker 2: food pantries will be woefully unable to fill the resulting

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Speaker 2: fifty six million meal gap in the next month. Elena says,

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Speaker 2: if nothing changes, SNAP users in Massachusetts will have painful

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Speaker 2: decisions ahead.

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Speaker 4: And they're going to have to decide between paying for

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Speaker 4: food or paying for housing, paying for their utility bills.

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