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"The government shutdown means thousands of people in Milwaukee County could lose the food they need to survive.The Hunger Task Force is working twice as hard at a difficult time of year, thinking about the hungry and their Thanksgiving meals.\"We're still seeing about 37,000 people visiting emergency pantries in Milwaukee County every single month,\" Hunger Task Force Executive Director Sherrie Tussler said.Tussler announced the launch of the annual Food For Families campaign Tuesday and put out blue boxes at area stores. This year, an unexpected twist in collecting canned goods could make feeding families more difficult.\"The federal government shut down, so that means the USDA shut down, so a lot of the commodity foods that we would normally get from the government to feed poor people are not going to be coming until the government starts back up. So we're going to have to fill with donations and food that we purchase waiting for the government to get its act back together,\" Tussler said.The Hunger Task Force gives out about 10,000 stock boxes a month to seniors in need and it's filled with food from the federal government.But with the government shutdown, this supply could run out by the end of December.\"And now that the government has shut down, we may be seeing a loss of food stamps, school meals,\" Tussler said.People can drop off nonperishable food items at those blue bins, which you'll find at local grocery stores."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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