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“Most don’t consider hunger to be an obstacle. It’s hard to unless you’ve been there. If it weren’t for SNAP, I’d probably be homeless. That’s not easy to say, I’m a proud man. Unless you’ve been there, you wouldn’t understand. All you can do is focus on when you might eat again or how you are going to come up with $40 to stay in a cheap motel one more night. This is why SNAP is important to me and people who need it.”
– Tulsan Bryan Parker, testifying before a Congressional committee on the importance of SNAP (food stamps). Parker, a veteran, is now part of the Lobek Taylor Culinary Trade Program offered at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma (Source)
