Food scarcity is on the rise in America as the economy reels

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The number of American families struggling to put food on the table has seen a "substantial" increase since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis said in a new analysis of Census Bureau data.

Food insecurity — defined as the inability to afford healthy food for all family members — affected 37 million U.S. households even before the start of the disease outbreak. That's due in part to widening income inequality, which has undercut the economic gains during the weak recovery that followed the Great Recession. But food shortages are on the rise as unemployment has surged into double-digits and many workers are furloughed without pay.

More than 10% of households said they sometimes or often didn't have enough to eat in early June, the St. Louis Fed found. That compares with about 8% of households experiencing food scarcity before March 13, when states began shutting down businesses and layoffs spiked, according to Census data. With at least 21 million workers out of a job, 17 million additional Americans are at risk of becoming food insecure, Feeding America, a nonprofit coalition of food banks, said in a recent report.


"The lines for food at emergency feeding sites offer a picture of the human suffering that data can only begin to explain," according to a June 18 letter from Feeding America, along with more than 2,500 other advocacy organizations seeking increased funding for food stamps, that was sent to Senate leaders. "This crisis demands a response that is commensurate with its scope and seriousness."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/food-scarcity-is-on-the-rise-in-america-as-the-economy-reels/ar-BB15J5kb?li=BBnb7Kz

Heckuva job Trumpy.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. It almost couldnt be worse, and 45 million of us think he is doing a great job. This means we are

broken and we cant function, we have to be fixed or put out to pasture.

[Newest Reality]

2. The problem is obvious.

If they would just stop asking people if they are hungry or food insecure, then there wouldn't be any hungry people and the problem is then effectively solved. The problem is the kind of questions asked.

The same goes for statistics. If you didn't use them like that, they wouldn't indicate any hunger at all. No statistics equals no percentages of anything at all.

Doh!

[The Figment]

3. I drove to the corner store on this past Wednesday,

One of the food banks here in town has a grocery giveaway for three hours or until supplies run out on Wednesday afternoon, the line of cars was literally 6 blocks long.
Blew my mind.

[marie999]

4. Our daughter goes to three different food banks a week.

She brings the food home and we separate into enough packages for her to bring it to the people in our area who can't get out. It's mostly milk, orange juice, canned vegetables, canned fruits, pork and beans, tuna fish, chips, eggs, and desserts. Almost all named brands. Anyone who wants can go to these places. The only question they ask you is how many people are you collecting for. You don't even get out of your car, just open the trunk and they fill it up.