Posted on 08/04/2022 11:21:38 AM PDT by conservative98
The first time Kelly Wilcox drove her 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan to the food pantry near her home in Payson, Utah, she noticed one thing right away that surprised her: newer models of Toyota and Honda sedans and minivans. “I saw a bunch of other people with cars like mine, who had kids in cars,” she said.
The mother of four young sons hadn’t known what to expect when she made that initial trip to Tabitha’s Way Local Food Pantry this spring. She did know she needed help. Her husband had lost his job. He soon found a new job as an account manager, but with inflation it hasn’t been enough. “We still cannot keep up with the bills,” said Ms. Wilcox, 35. To keep her children fed this summer, she has visited the pantry regularly and said that barring a change, like a drop in food prices or a raise for her husband, it will be necessary for the foreseeable future.
ADVERTISEMENT Tabitha’s Way’s location in Spanish Fork, Utah, a town of about 44,000 outside Provo, used to serve roughly 130 families each week, offering essentials like fresh produce and baby formula. This year — serving people like Ms. Wilcox and her family, whose paychecks are not going far enough — that number has climbed above 200.
The increase in food insecurity is not about a sudden wave of joblessness as it was when the economy ground to a halt in 2020 in the first wave of the pandemic. It is about inflation — higher prices for housing, gas and especially food. According to the last report on consumer prices, the cost of food increased 10.4 percent from a year earlier, the largest 12-month increase since 1981.
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And today is Thursday August 4th 2022, and BidenIdiot is the worst President in United States history.
Biden is the best worst President we’ve had. The 1st place winner in worst.
There seems to be an abundance of democRATs so the starving could just adjust their BBQ recipes for leftist long pork.
I’m sure people like “Kelly Wilcox” will beg government to help them out of this-—even though it’s the same government that got them into this place.
I just got back from the store. The eggs that cost me $3.58 in December cost me $9.98 today. I’m losing ground fast.
Going hungry? Did they forget about needing food? Idiots. Hey, idiots, breathe.
What’s the next story? O2 deficiency increasing in marginalized communities as the wealthy wear their ankle warmers sweating to the oldies?
$9.98? Where are you located?
$4.97 for a dozen eggs this morning!
Located in Texas. The $9.98 was 3 dozen bulk, but so was the $3.58.
On the bright side....we have the most obese people in poverty in the world!
9.98??? 2 dozen right?
Thanks-—that’s about the same as here. $6.99 for 2 dozen “cage free” eggs at BJs....
And awful picky given how they react to less than satisfactory fast food orders.
meanwhile they beg on tv for food for old Ukrainian women...
Your war on oil, your incompetence when it comes to supply chains, your inabilities to efficiently run agencies are causing suffering for your constituents.
How dare you! Shame!
fugedabout bacon
I know right?
My fries be cold! BANG! BANG! BANG!
No ketchup! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Might as well move to Ukraine, at least they could get some aid there.
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