'Rice Is Like Gold': US Food Banks Face Shortfalls Of Millions Of Dollars
By Nina Lakhani in New York, Maanvi Singh in Oakland and Erum Salam in Houston
The Guardian
Food banks face going millions of dollars over budget as they struggle to meet surging demand from those hit hard by mass layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Across the US, not-for-profit groups are buying truckloads of increasingly expensive food to cope with the sharp increase in the “new needy” – and the dramatic decline in donations from supermarkets left empty by panic shoppers.