Earning dollars outside tourist areas is harder, so locals improvise or go hungry.

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Now, as their filched supplies begin to run out, they are forced to pay huge mark-ups to profiteers, or go hungry.

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That means they go hungry or are not able to maintain normal and consistent eating patterns because they cant afford it.

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None of this is to say that we should stand by and allow poor single moms and their children to go hungry or that we should accept abuse of women by ultra-Orthodox bullies.

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"We have been stockpiling food, equipment and fuel since March so people won't go hungry or cold but you may find your schedule changes at the last minute, there is nothing you can do about the weather, " she said.

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One that protects vulnerable children, or one that allows them to go destitute, scared and hungry?

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It means the difference between a healthy happy family that can sleep at night with a full stomach or having to tell my son that we may all have to go to bed hungry.

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