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Colleen Moriarty

Colleen Moriarty

Colleen Moriarty is the executive director at Hunger Solutions Minnesota. Colleen has been involved in poverty programs for the majority of her career. She works to motivate decision-makers to take supportive action on state and national hunger policy issues.

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Help SNAP recipients shop at farmers markets | Opinion

By: and - June 16, 2021

Hunger Solutions Minnesota and its many partners throughout the state are dismayed that the Healthy Eating Here at Home program — otherwise known as “Market Bucks” — was eliminated in the agriculture budget agreement announced by lawmakers a few days ago. In a time of unprecedented food insecurity, with 1 in 9 Minnesotans struggling to […]