A year after visiting the food pantry, a grandmother leaves her foreclosed home
When we spoke with Janie Larson a year ago, the soaring cost of oil, the rising cost of food and the months of unemployment that she had just emerged from had her going to a food bank for the first time. One year later, we check in with Janie to see how she’s been weathering this economic climate.
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