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The presence of daily hunger in Massachusetts is an abomination.

The collapse Saturday of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program shows how vulnerable people are to food insecurity. The statistics in Hampden County that tell the hunger story are so startling they seem distorted.

– Nearly one out of two people in Springfield – 73,416 is the latest tally – receive federal anti-hunger money in the form of the SNAP benefits. But the allowance of an average of $187 a month per person didn’t arrive this week, due to the federa

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