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Should we feed people? What about kids? Why are these questions that Liz has to write?

In an episode that should be the least controversial, Liz talks with Kate Constantine from Gather about food pantries, SNAP benefits, food waste, and school meals.

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Links:

• Gather’s website
• Donate to Gather
• NH Hunger Solutions
• NH Hunger Solutions Policy and Advocacy
• House committee defunds relief program for mothers and children, spares SNAP incentives (Concord Monitor)
• Granite State Market Match program sets new limits due to uncertain federal funding (NHPR)
• Anti-hunger advocates have a new focus: the school breakfast (NH Bulletin)
• Portsmouth still has 'way more' restaurants seats than people: Here are numbers (Seacoast Online)
• New Hampshire Policy Points 2025: Food Insecurity
• As federal support for free school meals drops, kids’ stigma may increase (Harvard Public Health)
• Why universal free school meals matter (The Fern)
• Food Waste FAQs (USDA)

Episodes Referenced:

• Putting the Fun (yes, fun!) in State Budget Funding with Phil Sletten (part 1)
• Homelessness ... in New Hampshire? with Erica Diamond and Lauren Bombardier

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New Hampshire Has Issues is generously sponsored by Seacoast Soils, an organic compost and topsoil provider forNew Hampshire, Maine, and Northeast Massachusetts. Visit their website at www.seacoastsoil.com!