Taxpayer-funded $3.2B fruit, vegetable program restarts

(The Center Square) – A taxpayer-funded $3 billion-plus program to provide food assistance recipients with fresh fruit and vegetables is back online after a $20 million cash infusion from California’s taxpayers.

The latest allocation supplements roughly $3.2 billion worth of taxpayer spending on the CalFresh program, which is California’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP…

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