A shortage of massive meal is coming, the main food bank says
Nourish America says its food banks could have a deficit from 6 to 8 billion meals over the next year.
Many people have lost their jobs this year because of the pandemic, which means many families have turned to food banks so that meals can be put on the table in the last two months. But what happens when the first network of food banks in America predicts that this will benefit from a hugefood shortage In the next year? (In touch:8 groceries who can soon be in the short diet.)
Nourish America, an organization of honest-relief and a national network of more than 200 food banks, have recently reported that it could face adeficit up to 10 billion food books between now and June 2021, which translates to about 8 billion meals. In July, the organization predicted that people depend on its food banks up to 17 billion foodbacks over the next 12 months, more than three times the distribution of the distribution of the year last.
In 2019, the national food insecurity rate decreased slightly. On aNew USDA Report, about 10.5% of households (or 1 out of 10) were unable to pay nutritious food for their families in 2019, down 0.6 percentage point of the previous year. In fact, last year saw the lowest food insecurity rate since before the 2008 recession. But in 2020, the number of Americans dealing with hunger is tilted up. (To verifyWhat if you live in a food desert.)
Earlier this year,Nourish estimated as much as54 million people in the United States could undergo food insecurity because of the pandemic. For a perspective, 35.2 million people are confronted with hunger last year. According to the most recent United States office.Household pulse investigation, which was monitored between August 19 and August 31, about 10% of US adults ($ 22.3 million) said they did not have enough food to eat last week. Before the pandemic, 18 million American adults reported the same thing.
Now, food banks are concerned, they will not be able to provide livelihood families needed to survive. Not only has a loss of work on the dramatic country contributed to major deficits in food banks, but the number of donations and volunteers has also been both declining.An investigation that nourishes America Made in mid-September revealed that member food banks have knownan average increase of 56% of demand.
The main nutritional assistance programs such as SNAP also experienced gaps during the pandemic, which put immense pressure on food banks to have the necessary resources to feed millions of Americans.
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