It's still uncertain how the federal judges’ decisions will immediately affect the SNAP food assistance program, which aides about 1 in 8 Americans. The Trump administration has warned it could take weeks to issue November payments, and that recipients might only get half their usual amount.

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State representative, Homer Gomez, D-Easthampton, has filed a bill to establish community fridges in Massachusetts for families struggling to get food, with over a million state residents missing out on SNAP benefits. State House News Service reporter Sam Drysdale updates us on the status of this bill.

Sam Drysdale, SHNS: That bill did receive its hearing in the Agriculture Committee in September. Rep. Gomez did talk about his own experience receiving SNAP be

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