Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans
Washington DC, US Reuters Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $US1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organisations in seven states. Hunger in the US has ticked up in […]
Inflation boosts demand at US food banks as pandemic anti-hunger measures fall away
United States RNS At the Seven Loaves Food Pantry at St Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas, volunteers have been serving 800 to 1,200 families a week since the COVID-19 pandemic began – about four times the weekly traffic in 2019. At the ICNA Relief Food Pantry in Raytown, Missouri, just east of Kansas […]