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At a mobile food bank in Clinton, Missouri, 74-year-old Lorna Hall spent the night in her car as rising costs and shrinking aid deepen rural hunger. Leo and Donita Barnett called the assistance a lifeline among roughly 175 households served that day. Pastor Marty Resz says demand has doubled. Harvesters, which feeds nearly 375,000 people daily in Kansas and Missouri, reports one in seven across 27 counties are food insecure, with inflation, over $1 billion in federal cuts, and a canceled USDA food insecurity report compounding needs, as a government shutdown withholds SNAP payments.

Prepared by Christopher Adams and reviewed by editorial team.