Study: Nearly 100,000 In El Paso County Rely On Food Banks

By Luis Carlos Lopez / El Paso Times, El Paso Times
Fri, 08/22/2014 - 8:47pm

One in eight people in El Paso County turn to food pantries and meal-service programs to feed their families, a recently published study found. ››

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