PHOENIX — Arizona’s largest food bank is gearing up for a surge in demand, as the government shutdown threatens to cut off food stamps for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans on Nov. 1.
The Friday morning lines at St. Mary’s Food Bank were long and getting longer.
“I need something to eat. Prices are way too high,” said Darrrell Shepherd of Phoenix, as he waited for his food box in the cab of his pickup…