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Since she was in grade school, 19-year-old Citali Arredondo and her family have made weekly visits to their local food bank in the small west Fresno County town of San Joaquin. The family, which does not receive CalFresh assistance, has long turned the food bank for essentials such as chicken, eggs and milk.
On their weekly food bank trip Tuesday morning, Arredondo’s family encountered much longer lines and wait times — ripple effects from the disruption of CalFresh payments to hundreds of thousands of needy Central Valley families…