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November 2, 2026 newsletter

  Good morning everyone! Have you finished off your Halloween candy yet? You know...the candy you ostensibly bought for the neighborhood kids? Our house has a looooong driveway that the kids won't come up, so Mike and I have the tradition of passing out our candy with our neighbors (thank you Dorothy and Jeff!). The upside is that we get to leave all of our candy with them afterwards. The downside is that we leave all of our candy with them afterwards! We got some good news from Project Bread's special initiative called "Make Hunger History" this week regarding Massachusetts's Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) funding: "The Senate Ways & Means Supplemental Budget was just released and includes additional funding for DTA caseworkers at the SAME LEVEL as the House version: $28M over baseline for a total of $176.6M! Again, this additional funding will allow the agency to bring on a significant number of new SNAP DTA caseworkers and ensure ...