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A cashier scans groceries for an older woman with a shopping cart at a small natural food store checkout counter.
Ian Walker, Simple Foods Market owner, rings up grocery items from employee Ruean Holt’s shopping basket on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, at the grocery store in Del Norte, Colo. Holt was enrolled in the Colorado Food Cluster’s Food Trust pilot program, which provided recipients with no-cost healthy foods as part of the universal basic food pilot program. Photo by John McEvoy/Special to The Colorado Trust

For years, the money on Jessie Dorris’ electronic benefits transfer, or EBT, card was enough to buy groceries for herself and her son. As a single mom who was working to improve their lives, she carefully maintained a tight budget every month.

But grocery costs kept going up, and despite Dorris remaining frugal with her spending, the money wasn’t stretching as far.

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