The rush is on at Amos House earlier each month

REACHING OUT: LaSalle Academy students JJ Sanzi, left, and Cole ­Matthews volunteer by preparing meals at the Amos House food kitchen in Providence.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
REACHING OUT: LaSalle Academy students JJ Sanzi, left, and Cole ­Matthews volunteer by preparing meals at the Amos House food kitchen in Providence.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

At Amos House’s soup kitchen, need is typically lower at the beginning of the month, then ramps up as people’s public-assistance benefits run out. Now, the numbers have changed. “Traditionally, the way that timing works in our soup kitchen is we are slowest at the beginning of the month,” said Jessica Salter, chief philanthropy officer

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