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- President Biden's 2021 American Rescue Plan included $350 billion for local and state governments.
- Some states have barely touched their money, even though they have to allocate it by 2024.
- Others are pouring funds into everything from grocery stores to basic-income pilot programs.
When the pandemic hit, older people in Charleston, West Virginia, suddenly found themselves with a lot less food.
Keep Your Faith Corp. — a local nonprofit that focuses, in part, on food-system development — stepped in to fill the gaps, bringing those people pop-up farmers markets and food education.
"It was well needed," Dural Miller, the founder and the CEO of Keep Your Faith, told Insider.