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Patrick’s budget would cut senior meals

Decry plan for cut in food program

Governor Deval Patrick proposed state budget includes a $1.5 million cut to the Elderly Nutrition Program, which provides free or subsidized meals to the elderly through “meals-on-wheels’’ home deliveries and elderly group meals at community centers. The cut would be a major blow to a program lauded for providing nutritional and psychological benefits to elderly people who can no longer cook for themselves.

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