Food banks are seeing a major increase in need. Philabundance, the area's largest hunger relief organization, says it's distributing more food than ever before amid skyrocketing prices. KerriCorrado reports
“The prices of food are so high. They’re going up higher every day,” one woman said.“Pre-pandemic, we were serving 90,000 people a week,” Philabundance CEO Loree Jones Brown said. “Now, we are serving 140,000 people a week.”Philabundance, which is the largest hunger relief organization in the Delaware Valley, works with about 350 agency partners, like churches and community centers, to provide food to families in the area.
“What our agency partners are telling us is that over the last several weeks with inflation prices going so high that more and more people are coming to access food,” Jones Brown said.In June, prices at the grocery store rose more than 12% — the largest one-year increase since 1979.“Well now, we are in a situation where people are going to the stores and seeing everything go up,” Jones Brown said. “Milk prices go up.
And since the higher prices are straining budgets, many families are forced to make difficult decisions. “We often know families are choosing between paying utilities or buying food or paying rent and buying food,” Jones Brown said.“We invite everybody in this area, everybody watching this to join us in this cause,” Jones Brown said.
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