March 15, 2025

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Funds

Millions of hungry kids denied access to summer EBT funds

On a blistering-hot June day in Birmingham, Alabama, Elena Vasquez Garcia sautéed chicken and bell peppers over the stove, ingredients for tacos topped with “expensive” avocados for her three children at home, after she’d spent the week at a food pantry catering to community members who can’t afford meat, milk and produce. Feeding four people

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Loans

17 arrested in NY bust

The New York State Attorney General’s Office unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging 17 individuals in connection with “lucrative” illegal gambling and loansharking operations controlled by alleged members of the infamous Gambino crime family. Prosecutors accused the individuals of participating in a sports gambling operation that received more than $22.7 million in illicit bets and a

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