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This week on "The State of Ohio": The Senate version of the budget is on its way, with just a few weeks remaining to hammer out differences with the House. Lawmakers try to clarify the state auditor's role with JobsOhio. And we revisit and update two controversial issues from the last year - the abortion debate in Ohio and the state's new exotic animals law and the facility it created.
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| Economy isn't getting any better, and hunger situation in Ohio is getting much worse. |
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By Jo Ingles - March 30, 2010 |
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A new report shows more than ten percent of Ohioans got food from one of the state's 12 foodbanks last year. Lisa Hamler Fugitt of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks says this study shows the situation is worse now than just four years ago. |
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Lisa Hamlar-Fugitt (:24) 
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| Hamler Fugitt says much of the increase is due to people in suburban areas of cities who were once thought to be insulated from the economic crisis. She says 44% of the households served by the state's foodbanks either don't have food or don't know where their next meal is coming from. That's an 18% increase over the last report that was conducted by the foodbanks four years ago. |
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