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This article was first published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones, with support from the Solutions Journalism Network, and is reprinted with permission. Renee Taylor was busy when I spoke with her. She was making 500 meals, following the day’s menu—“tamales, tacos, rice, pico”—accompanied by the background clamor of clattering metal
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