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‘There’s not much food for them’: Hunger is squeezing students — and it could get worse

THIS HAS BEEN an especially challenging year for Rosalba Ortega’s family.  It’s been a cold, soggy winter in Bakersfield, and Ortega said her two granddaughters, ages 4 and 7, don’t have warm coats for their walk to school. Rent and food prices have been climbing, and as a farmworker, she’s struggled to find work in […]

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