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Gov. Tom Wolf announces $4 million in grants to nonprofits that feed the hungry

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FOX 29's Chris O'Connell reports. PENNSYLVANIA - There are countless people fighting hunger and with the ballooning unemployment rate, the problem of food security will most likely get worse before it gets better.

On Tuesday, the weekly stream of hungry clients picked up a month’s worth of food from the pantry at the Bernadine Center in Chester. FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS “And they’re told how many they can pick from here and the pick what they want,” Sister Sandra Lyons told FOX 29.

She has been running the place for 12 years and if there’s one thing she sees nowadays, it’s not just the need for food but the need for donations.  “A lot of people are struggling in the sense they don’t know where to turn," Paul Mickle, a volunteer with the

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