January 28, 2025

Working Americans caight in a food price crunch

  MSN - Food banks across the nation are seeing ... a post-pandemic wave of demand for food driven by working people caught in America’s cost-of-living crunch. “This is a new era of food insecurity,” said Emily Engelhard, vice president of research at Feeding America, the largest US hunger relief organization. “This isn’t an unemployment issue.” 

As prices have risen, so have the share of Americans reporting they don’t have enough to eat. And despite robust economic growth and historically low unemployment, those figures have remained elevated in 2024, US Census data show.

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