USA TODAY: …Nationwide, 25% of military families – 620,000 households – need help putting food on the table, according to a study by Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks…
One in seven Americans – 46 million people – rely on food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families, the study found…
“The people who come here are hard workers. They are employed. They are the school bus drivers, the lab techs in doctors’ offices, receptionists, the janitors who clean the floor of your children’s school,” [Linda] Patterson says. “They just can’t make ends meet because some kind of crisis has hit them.”… (more)
