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Some SNAP recipients have been seeing payments again, though the Trump administration is appealing a court order to fully restart the program amid the government shutdown. About 42 million Americans rely on SNAP. For many of them, the uncertainty of whether they would get any funds last week forced them to turn to food pantries for the - for help for the first time. Adam Wagner with the North Carolina Newsroom has this report from a food pantry in Tarboro.

ADAM WAGNER, BYLINE: A little more than an hour east of Raleigh, Tarboro is in Edgecombe County. About 30% of its nearly 50,000 residents receive SNAP benefits. With funding for SNAP in limbo, the need has been especially obvious at Tarboro Community Outreach. The center houses the county's largest food pantry, whi

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