Posted on 05/14/2020 1:24:19 PM PDT by blam
OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — Kate Maehr has never seen anything like it: lines stretching for blocks as people, many with children, inch forward to get boxes of food they hope will last until the next giveaway, until the next paycheck or until they can get government food assistance.
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Maehr, executive director of the . “They’re finding themselves in a set of circumstances where they have no income and they also have no food, and it happened in an instant.”
The number of people seeking help from her organization and affiliated food pantries has surged 60% since the start of the pandemic, which has shut down the nation’s economy and thrown tens of millions of people out of work. Across the country, are adding to the anxiety of millions of people, according to a survey that found 37% of unemployed Americans ran out of food in the past month and 46% said they worried about running out.
Even those who are working often struggle. Two in 10 working adults said that in the past 30 days, they ran out of food before they could earn enough money to buy more. One-quarter worried that would happen.
Those results come from the second wave of the , conducted by for the . The survey aims to provide an ongoing assessment of the nation’s mental, physical and financial health during the pandemic.
There is no parallel in U.S. history for the suddenness or severity of the economic collapse, which has cost more than since the virus struck. The nationwide in April, the highest since the Great Depression. While many Americans believe they will be working in the coming months, unemployed Americans — those most likely to report running out of food — aren’t optimistic.
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ship the corn that’s not being converted to ethanol because demand is down, to the food banks.
Maybe set up some additional distribution points.
A little context, Oak Park is a nice upper middle class white neighborhood, but it’s surrounded on two sides by the ghetto. So that may explain why so many are lining up for the food pantries there instead of the one a mile south or a mile east.
An old story. Ants v. grasshoppers.
And media and Asspress. Don’t forget them. It’s depression time in the media.
Venezuela here we come!
pretty frikkin sad because it was INTENTIONAL!!!
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic who can be worried about a mundane thing like eating? After all not eating never killed anybody right? /sarc
Can the Fearpers tell me if anyone has ever died of starvation?
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Yet we have farmers plowing their perfectly good crops into the ground.
Not to be mean but there’s people in that line that could go 30 days without food and not die.
“Can the Fearpers tell me if anyone has ever died of starvation”
No one I ever knew. How about you? How about anyone here on FR? In fact when is the last time anyone free to walk around in America died of starvation?
Starvation is one of China’s political tactics - same with North Korea. I doubt anyone in the United States has died of starvation in the last 50 years. This isn’t a hellhole culture like China.
But if it saves only one 95 year old from COVID 19 it is worth it (sarc).
20 years ago Venezuela was the most prosperous country in Central and South America yet now the Venezuelan people are starving thanks to communism. If you do not think that this can happen in America it is starting right now.
All because of a Chinese virus that is a little worse than the yearly flu. Those who live in fear should hang their heads in perpetual shame.
Colorize it and it’s 2020
20 years ago Venezuela was rich and now their people are starving and fleeing as refugees because of socialism. You are right that Americans have not died of starvation for decades now because we are not a leftists hellhole. However all of that can change because of the fear that some people promote which is enabling leftists to lockdown our economy thereby destroying small businesses, the middle class, and the working poor.
Hypochondriac fear mongers are playing the left’s game and should rightly be called ‘useful idiots of the leftists’ and be shunned.
Can the people not see what the government is doing?
Historically, poverty meant emaciation. The poor in America are MUCH more likely to be obese than emaciated.
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