Gulf South food banks look back on a challenging year as another shutdown looms

For Mississippi Food Network (MFN) in Jackson, that meant doing more with less.

Interim CEO Cassandra Mobley said the nonprofit that serves 430 member agencies across the state distributed about 26 million pounds of food last year — about 4 million pounds less than the previous year.

“Our pounds were down,” she said. “We served about the same amount of people with a good bit of less food.”…

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