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Brittany Ebert thinks federal lawmakers might reopen the government and resume food stamp funding if they knew what it was like to feed three children on a tight budget.
Ebert, who filled a bag with free produce Monday at the nonprofit Bounty & Soul’s market in Swannanoa, is a part-time substitute teacher. Her husband is an Ingles Markets Inc. warehouse employee who lost two months of work after the chain’s distribution center near Black Mountain was flooded by Tropical Storm Helene…