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USDA Ends Annual Food Insecurity Survey: What It Means for Our Foodbank

A Food Bank of Siouxland truck delivering food for the Grace United Methodist Church food pantry.
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A Food Bank of Siouxland truck delivering food for the Grace United Methodist Church food pantry.

This week the USDA announced that it would no longer conduct its annual survey of food insecurity. My guest is Jacob Wanderscheid, executive director of the Foodbank of Siouxland. We began our conversation on the issue of the survey and how the drying up of its data may affect the Foodbank’s work.

Mark Munger first began listening to public radio as a child in the back of his Mom's VW Vanagon, falling in love with the stories on Morning Edition and Prairie Home Companion and the laughter of Click and Clack on Car Talk. Through KWIT, he was introduced to the great orchestras and jazz artists, the sounds of folk and blues, and the eclectic expressions of humanity. This American Life and Radiolab arrived in his formative college years and made him want nothing more than to be a part of the public radio world.
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