Recession Taking Its Toll On County Nonprofit Groups Needed to Help Cope with Rising Poverty

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More children are eating free or reduced-price meals at county schools, more families are using food stamps or applying for energy assistance, and more county residents are homeless in recent months than before the recession began.

But ending poverty begins with myriad other issues, said Brian Angus, CEO of the Anne Arundel Community Action Partnership.

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Recession Taking Its Toll On County Nonprofit Groups Needed to Help Cope with Rising Poverty

"There's a lot of interconnected issues," he said. "You can't just work on poverty. You have to deal with the individual issues."

The Community Action Partnership talked about a few of those fa...

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