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Guest columnist James Lomastro: The hidden health crisis coming to western Mass. โ€” How the reduction in the Big Beautiful Bill will overwhelm our health care system

The immediate SNAP crisis is over for now. However, under the Big Beautiful Bill, SNAP benefits will be reduced. Nearly 200,000 of our neighbors โ€” 17.85% of the state’s SNAP recipients โ€” will be affected. When food assistance is reduced, our already strained rural health care systems will face a crisis they cannot absorb. Western […]

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