It’s difficult to imagine that people here in McLeod County can be hungry. But it happens every day.

Marietta Neumann, executive director of the McLeod Emergency Food Shelf, told us demand for the food available at her agency’s sites in Glencoe and Hutchinson has never been greater. That’s hard to fathom in a nation with so much abundance and in a county where poverty seems to be much less of a problem than elsewhere.

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