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Hunger and Hope centers the stories of local farmers, small business owners, social justice advocates, and others who are finding innovative ways to pull their families and communities out of poverty.

Robin Rohrbaugh, president of the Community Progress Council joined us on Tuesday’s Smart Talk to discuss the poverty crises and resources to support families on their path toward self-sufficiency.

Christina Duncan, Executive Director at Milagro House and Stacie Blake, CEO of the YWCA Lancaster joined us on Tuesday’s Smart Talk to discuss the factors that are keeping women in these circumstances, resolutions to get them out of those circumstances, and an upcoming Milagro House event that addresses these issues.

Squeegee workers, also known as squeegee kids, mostly teenagers from low-income neighborhoods who clean drivers’ windshields at intersections for money.

More than 1,891,000 Pennsylvanians are now enrolled in the state’s food stamp program; approaching the record-setting enrollment levels of the early months of the pandemic.

The Department of Health did not explain why it abandoned a plan to change who administers a nutrition program for pregnant people and young children.

In Pennsylvania, the dollar amounts paid to families in the program are low (about $400 monthly for a family of three) and have not increased since the 1990s.