MINOT — "Imagine you're someone, a family who is working a job or two or even three, and then all of a sudden, with a week before the end of the month, you learn that the money you had been counting on to purchase food for you and your family isn't going to be there on Saturday, Nov. 1," Karen Ehrens said on this episode of Plain Talk.

"Probably you have rent due or you're a senior on a fixed income scraping by until the end of the month, looking forward to when you might get some help so you can buy groceries. And then you learn a few days before Saturday that that money won't be there."

"It's beyond frustrating," she added.

It's also unprecedented. "It's a never-before-seen event that's coming," she said.

Ehrens is the U.S. policy manager for the Alliance to End Hunger, and she's ref

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