SNAP Restrictions Left This Maine Veteran Hungry for a Year

People were falling through the cracks already, but new food stamp cuts mean there will be more people like Tim Keefe

Juliette Luini
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7 min readDec 16, 2019

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Photo: Portland Press Herald/Getty Images

Tim Keefe found himself homeless in his tent in rural Maine. It was below freezing. He hadn’t had food in two days. “I’ve worked since I was 11. I’ve paid taxes my…

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