When running a food bank, making sure things get to where they're supposed to is half the battle, if not more.
Every day, Isaac Neely has his work cut out for him, putting together puzzles on pallets at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.
"I know what it feels like to be without," he said."I got myself into a situation and made a bad decision. It produced a situation where I wasn't able to get work because of my background. Because of that, that prevented me from getting work. Me not being able to get work produced all the other elements - not having food, not having money.""I depended a lot upon the kitchens and pantries," Neely said.
She says they're serving nearly double the amount of households they did pre-pandemic. She chalks it up to a combination of the pandemic, high inflation, and gas prices.
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