Food relief organizations nationwide are warning of the "hungriest summer" in recent memory because of inflation, just weeks after President Biden blamed his predecessor for long pandemic food lines.

A volunteer restocks canned food on the shelves of the Murphy’s Giving Market food bank in Upper Darby, Pa., on Sept. 26, 2022. Rachel Wisniewski / Bloomberg via Getty Images Oct. 26, 2024, 12: ...

Since March, they’ve provided food to about 440,000 people monthly — 40% more than in 2021 and 50% more than prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

The county’s nonprofit umbrella food bank, Feeding Westchester, distributed 22 million pounds of food in 2020, enough for nearly 18 million meals and more than double its total from the year before.

The Regional Food Bank of ... “Anyone here who works at a pantry will tell you that the lines ... Executive Director Christine Hein said — about 500,000 more meals than it served people in 2020.

The food bank provides support to 25,000 people a year. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ... The West Seattle Food Bank has seen a 30% increase in demand every year since 2020.

Volunteers package food items at the Bellingham Food Bank in 2020. Warren Sterling The Bellingham Herald In Washington state, more than 890,000 people face food insecurity daily.

The food bank will extend its distribution hours from 1-6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays ... Since 2020, food banks across the country have had to roll with the punches as food assistance ...

For every six households in Texas, one of them is struggling to put food on the table. “We’re talking about over 5 million Texans, and that really reflects what we see in food bank lines ...

Between 2020 and 2024, ... allowed the Erie-based food bank to provide about 1.5 million meals a year and represented about 30% of Second ... (food) lines are longer and people are lining up ...

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.

Since 2020, food banks across the country have had to roll with the punches as food assistance needs continue to grow. At the Weld Food Bank, lines of people in their vehicles waiting to pick up ...