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Pandemic Impacted Economy Is Driving Up Hunger

Andrew Morehouse, Executive Director of The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.
Paul Tuthill
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The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned this week that the next three months will be the most difficult in the public health history of the nation.
             The same could be true for social services, as the pandemic continues to strain the economy.

             The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts is already seeing unprecedented demand at the network of emergency food pantries and meal sites throughout the four western counties.

              WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Food Bank Executive Director Andrew Morehouse.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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