On Thursday, Maryland Matters will launch a ground-breaking, multi-part series on childhood hunger in Maryland.

The series, “Empty Plates at Maryland’s Table,” will take a look at an array of institutional impediments to ensuring Maryland children have adequate access to food: from low wages, to archaic rules on who qualifies for food stamps, to limitations on who can use school food pantries, to charities that perpetuate hunger in America — and so much more.

The series will also include a sobering look at major Maryland employers whose workers must use food stamps to feed their families.

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