Half a million state residents are currently on food stamps- that's more people than Minneapolis and Duluth combined -and Minnesota food shelves have seen a ten percent jump in visits since 2010.
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Authorities believe they have uncovered a scam in which a man bought food stamp cards at half their value from dozens of homeless-shelter residents in the St. Paul area and then redeemed them at two grocery stores, the Star Tribune reports.
More than 520,000 Minnesotans now receive food stamps. The numbers have soared across the country since the economic downturn, and MPR reports that some of the new names on the food stamp rolls are people you might not expect: recent college graduates.
Retaliatory tariffs have seen more produce and meat diverted to food shelves.
