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Hunger Awareness Day Comes at a Vulnerable Time for Texas

  

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Lynsey Kluever /(512) 320-0222 x 112

June 6, 2005

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Tomorrow, June 7, is National Hunger Awareness Day, a day designed to increase awareness of the need to protect America’s nutrition programs. Hunger Awareness Day is particularly timely this year, given that funding to Food Stamps and other nutrition programs is in jeopardy. Food Stamps are particularly important in Texas, given limited funding for food and other social services at the state level.