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Louisville food pantries are facing increased demand and dwindling supplies from donors and the USDA.

A government shutdown is pausing SNAP benefits, affecting 42 million Americans starting November 1.

Organizations are urging community members to donate food or money and to contact legislators for support.

It’s been months since volunteers at the United Crescent Hill Ministries food pantry have seen any infamous large blocks of yellow American cheese roll off trucks from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The once plentiful bags of rice have disappeared, and butter has been gone so long it’s reached near mythic status among the food pantry's workers.

Across Louisville, community-run food pantries like Crescent Hill’s are struggling with an ever-increasing deman

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