Food banks

America’s food pantries find rising need leading to empty shelves as Thanksgiving arrives

With the economy stuck in neutral, more and more people are turning to food pantries for assistance at the same time that donations and government funding are drying up. It’s put food pantries in a precarious situation.

The Tavis Smiley Show’s “Poverty in America” – Hunger

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