As jobs vanish, incomes drop, and food prices rise, more Americans are going to bed hungry — and advocates warn that without intervention from Congress, those numbers could increase to a level unseen in modern times.
A study from Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Studies found that the pandemic roughly doubled food insecurity in the United States. The food assistance nonprofit Feeding America estimates that with household finances decimated by the coronavirus, around 40 percent of people visiting food banks are first-time recipients of food assistance.
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