Here in NJ, this is the present: Few jobs, high costs, countless “For Sale” signs/foreclosures, huge government workforce, and a huge welfare population driving late-model cars...
When food pantries in one of the wealthiest counties in the US are complaining about running out of food, it doesn’t bode well.
WIC provides food for pregnant women and infants. The school lunch program covers the breakfast & lunch of pre-school and school age kids (and some schools are extending this to non-school days and summer vacations). Meals-on-wheels delivers all 3 meals to the elderly. And greatest of all EBT cards (food-stamps) are now covering 46 million.
Who is left who actually needs "food pantries" to feed them? How are these "food pantries" not also being scammed by those taking the food and/or scams of those running them?