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Reduced state and federal funding impacts local institutions.

It showed well over half of food bank participants have had to chose between paying for food or other expenses like gas, utilities, medicine or housing.

Low-income families in Ohio have been receiving additional food stamp benefits for the last two years. Food banks across the state now expect a surge.

Ohio's food banks have asked for $50 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds, saying the situation is "severe."

With the new space, the Foodbank plans to serve more fresh, locally grown vegetables to residents facing food insecurity in the Miami Valley.

Early during the pandemic, drone footage outside of a Freestore Foodbank's mass distribution site showed lines of cars stretched down roadways. A surge of…