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The Metro: Some metro Detroit families balance on the edge as SNAP faces deep cuts
In a nation where supermarkets are filled from floor to ceiling, a single missed phone call can empty a family’s pantry and leave children going to bed hungry.
Investigative journalist and author Tracie McMillan knows this firsthand, both from her own experience with SNAP benefits, or food stamps, and her years reporting on America’s working poor.
In McMillan’s recent piece for The New York Times, we meet Jocelyn Walker, a mother and entrepreneur from metro Detroit who is struggling to make ends meet and is stuck in this bureaucratic maze.
McMillan joined The Metro to discuss why hunger remains a persistent reality in America today.
Use the media player above to hear the full conversation.
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