For Whitney Jackson and her four children, not knowing if her family will receive federal food assistance next month means trying “to make the most of a smaller meal so we can save the food stamps.”

Jackson, a single mother from Columbia working as a certified medical assistant, said she has $44 of her family’s October benefits left. ×

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