Island Harvest says it started a new program to help people put food on the table, as lines at the food bank are longer. The nonprofit says food insecurity has hit the unemployed especially hard.

Nationally, more than 50 million people need help getting food from charities, according to food bank network Feeding America. In Connecticut, one in eight people are food insecure, according to ...

And so that’s what the JOY celebrations have been all about.” Over 80 people RSVP’d to volunteer at the food bank. Attendees split into groups of 12 and were positioned at different stations ...

and we were depending on what other people gave us, and it was not fresh healthy foods,” Bowman said. Staffer Bryan Watts moves pallets of food in the warehouse at Second Harvest Food Bank of ...