At 9 a.m. sharp, the line outside began filling the waiting room at the Northside Common Ministries’ food pantry. It wasn’t a typical Wednesday; there aren’t typical any days anymore.
The pantry on Brighton Road in California-Kirkbride is an inset of the larger picture in Allegheny County, where the struggle to put food on the table is growing roughly in line with state figures and a national upswing reported recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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