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Food banks face rising demand despite improving economy
Across the United States food banks report higher demand for free groceries, with Feeding America noting about 4 billion pounds of food to be donated this year. Executives from The House, Open Door, and others describe growing wait lines and increased distributions, while analysts link demand to low wage work and reduced food stamp rolls.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Feeding America
Sheila Moore
Albuquerque
N.M
Gloucester
Mass
Julie LaFontaine
James Ziliak
Center For Poverty Research
University of Kentucky
Ziliak
U.S. Labor Department
Ross Fraser
Walmart
Lisa Hamlet-Fugitt
Ohio Association of Food Banks