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SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty

This week our top indicators include changes to the funding model for SNAP, private equity’s influence on youth baseball and Meta’s attempt to find flaws in its brand new AI assistant. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.Your Next Listen –Why Trump's spending bill could close your grocery store–Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR AppConnect with The…

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