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WHEN I SPOKE with Mandi Remington in late January, she had just seven bucks left in her bank account and she’d run out of milk. Toward the end of most months, Remington told me, she’ll feed her three children and then make her own dinner from whatever is left on their plates. Her $55,000 salary as a medical records clerk in Iowa City doesn’t leave much for gas and groceries, yet she earns too much to qualify for Medicaid or food stamps. So when she discovered Iowa had opted out of a program to help feed low-income families when school is out, and that it would have sent her $40 a month per kid, “it was extremely frustrating,” she says.
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