Friday, Nov 30, 2007

Depression here we come: soup kitchens running out in the USA

NY Times: Food Banks, In a Squeeze, Tighten Belts

It's like a story from the 1930s: food kitchens for the hard-up in the USA are running out of supplies. Partly due to the bad harvest and supermarket inventory monitoring but also due to increased demand and straitened circumstances among the usual middle-class donors.
"Ms. Gosselin said household budget squeezes had led to a drop in donations and greater demand. “This is not the old ‘only the homeless are hungry,’” she said. “It’s working people.” "

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