The line to get into the food bank in Fresno — in California’s agricultural heartland — is hundreds of people long and snakes along the sidewalk.
Stephanie Wininger, a coordinator with the Central California Food Bank, is passing out laminated cards with numbers on them. It’s a first-come, first-served system.
“When I got here this morning at 7, the line already wrapped around the corner,” she said. “Usually, it wouldn’t even hit the corner yet before the shutdown.”…