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Food and Heating Assistance - 5:10

with Gilda Jacobs of the Michigan League for Public Policy

Posted Dec 02, 2019

One in 7 Michiganders don’t have enough to eat and an estimated 1.8 million live in communities with few affordable healthy food options. Gilda Jacobs, President and CEO of the Michigan League for Public Policy, joins host Laurel Hess to talk about the importance of helping struggling families with food assistance.

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