'There’s a lot of people hurting.'
SALINAS, Calif. – Three boys sat at a wooden table in the sunlit dining room of their two-bedroom apartment in North Salinas. Two $5 boxes of pepperoni pizzas were stacked on the kitchen table as the brothers devoured slice after slice.
Jesus Salvador, left, tucks his head into his father Meliton's neck, as Meliton eats a cherry inside their two-room apartment on the north side of Salinas on May 16.While many Americans have worried about the flow and availability of food given the widespread closures of businesses and coronavirus outbreaks during the height of the pandemic, families like the Salvadors worry about affording food at all.
“My mom and I are concerned about him getting less income mainly because he is the one who contributes to the household expenses and rent,” Resi said. “This summer, I don't know if I can find a job because of the pandemic, and I don't want him to worry about me financially. So I’m stressed out.” The family’s two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment is $1,300 a month – a good deal in Salinas, one of the nation's most expensive places to live. Two-bedroom apartments in the area average more than $1,600 a month.
Twenty percent of children under 18 in Monterey County are food-insecure compared with California’s 19%, or 1,731,270.
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