California's food banks grapple with 'tsunami of need' as pandemic grows

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California's food banks grapple with 'tsunami of need' as pandemic grows
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On a bright spring afternoon, hundreds of cars snaked up and down the parking lot in front of a community college in the industrial suburb of Pittsburg, California. One by one, students, teachers, young families and groups of elderly neighbors pulled up to visit a makeshift emergency food bank.

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