Food banks across America say economic conditions are pushing demand for their support higher at a time when their labor and delivery costs are climbing and donations are decreasing.
“There’s no reason us as a couple and a family should be struggling so hard,” Nunamaker said. “We make decent money.”She works three days a week at a home décor store for $15.25 an hour; her husband, Nick, works a full-time union job as a paratransit driver at $27 an hour. Though they receive some money from a state nutrition program for young children that their two youngest qualify for, they still spent $360 on groceries last week.
He said his organization must make more happen with less because its suppliers are subject to the same cost increases. The price that Second Harvest pays for obtaining donated produce has risen from about 6 cents a pound a year ago to about 10 or 11 cents a pound now, Williams said. Because of inflation and a reduction in aid, a food bank that serves three counties in Ohio — also called Second Harvest — is facing a drop in the amount of food it’s able to provide.
“Our work is always important,” Babineaux-Fontenot said. “It’s increasingly important when we have all of these headwinds.”
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