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with Mandi Remington in late January, she had just seven bucks left in her bank account and she’d run out of milk. Toward the end of most months, Remington told me, she’ll feed her three children and then make her own dinner from whatever is left on their plates. Her $55,000 salary as a medical records clerk in Iowa City doesn’t leave much for gas and groceries, yet