Food banks across the country will enter this holiday season with their resources strained as inflation continues to pummel the economy.
Even with inflation easing, families are still relying on food banks to help feed their families. Over a period of a year, grocery prices rose 13.1%.Soaring food prices and a drop in donations mean many food bank warehouses are more thinly stocked than in recent years, said Katie Fitzgerald, chief operating officer at Feeding America, a nonprofit overseeing a network of more than 200 food banks across the country.
At the West Seattle Food Bank, demand has remained just as high as during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and food is still being given out in the nonprofit's parking garage and via home delivery, to maintain social distancing. The West Seattle Food Bank is"dipping into reserves" for the second year in a row, relying on the monetary donations squirreled away from two years ago. But, of course,"it can’t last forever," Yeatts said.
Food banks and pantries across the country have also historically gotten donations from manufacturers with surplus supplies on their hands.
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