Near Ohio air force base, food pantries and businesses grapple with effects of shutdown
by Stephen Starrin Green county, Ohio from World news | The Guardian on (#71AX6)
As tens of thousands of military personnel work without pay and others are furloughed, a local pantry sees its numbers increasing as restaurants are losing customers
When Jane Doorley and her husband Bill arrived at the Fairborn Fish Food Pantry they help run on 28 October, they couldn't get into the parking lot, such was the number of cars belonging to people seeking food.
Our numbers are way up. Last Friday was really bad too," says Jane. Around 250 families, including 300 children, come to the pantry every day it's open."
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