Loaves and Fishes for the Masses

I lied about the loaves, and the fishes are canned. Why do we still have food banks, anyway?

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In 1986, I wrote an article about food banks that was published in the newsletter of an anti-poverty group. The views were mine alone, although I was a board member of the organization. When I wrote it, I was a single parent with three children and a job…