Across the United States, food banks are absorbing record demand at the very moment federal nutrition support is being cut or delayed. As SNAP lapses ripple through low income households, pantries are ...
Food banks are seeing a massive surge in demand due to the government shutdown, causing distribution sites to run out of supplies early. Streets of Joy in Mesa ran out of food hours before its normal ...
Nov. 13 (UPI) --The lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding has created a surge in need at food banks across the United States while producers, restaurants, grocery stores and ...
NOTE: This article went to press Friday for weekend distribution. Short important updates since then have been added and italicized. There’s increased demand at food pantries, due to fear that food ...
While the government shutdown is now over, delays to food assistance during the shutdown are still taking a toll on many Americans. In the Bay Area, food banks and local nonprofits say that while ...
Brian Walker showed up Friday at the Kansas Food Bank at 5:30 a.m., tall coffee cup in hand and a sense of dread swelling in his chest. By Monday, the federal agency that hands out federal food ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As lawmakers work to reopen the government and restore SNAP benefits, the Mid-South Food Bank is handling an increased demand for food. Organizers said they’ve received calls from ...
CLEVELAND — November is typically the busiest month of the year for food banks, and this year, the need remains high even with the end of the recent government shutdown. Karen Pozna, director of ...
As a major winter storm approaches western Kentucky, leaders at Paducah Cooperative Ministry say they’re already feeling the surge. The nonprofit said it has seen shelves empty faster than usual ...
Headlines reporting on ‘declining plant-based sales’ and talk of a fading trend make for dramatic clickbait, but they miss ...