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Food Banks Overwhelmed As America’s “Working Poor” Go Hungry During Lockdown
April 6, 2020 in News by RBN Staff


 
 
Source: Need To Know | ZeroHedge





 
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The lockdown across most of the US has put labor markets in free fall and forced millions of people out of work – and with that comes hunger. Food banks in major cities are overwhelmed. In just two weeks, ten-million people claimed unemployment benefits. Many adults in the US have heavy debt, no savings, and lack sufficient funds to pay their recurring bills for three months. [After hunger and loss of utilities, come riots. Then martial law. Do you think those who called the lockdown don’t know this?]  -GEG
America is crashing into a depression. In just two weeks, 10 million people have claimed unemployment benefits. This has put unprecedented stress on food bank networks across the country, a new investigation via The Guardian shows.
The US labor market is in free fall – the increasing lockdowns across major US metropolitan areas have forced millions of people out of work and into a hunger crisis.
The Guardian shows demand for food aid in some regions of the country has surged eightfold in recent weeks as RealInvestmentAdvice.com’s Lance Roberts warns the unemployment rates in the US could spike to levels not seen since the “Great Depression,” or about 15-20% in the second quarter.
The National Guard has been deployed for a variety of reasons: One is to support local area hospital systems, another is to maintain social order, and now soldiers in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Phoenix have supported food banks to ensure shortages do not materialize, mostly because that would trigger social unrest among the working poor.
“I’ve been in this business over 30 years, and nothing compares to what we’re seeing now. Not even when the steel mills closed down did we see increased demand like this,” said Sheila Christopher, director of Hunger-Free Pennsylvania, which represents 18 food banks across 67 counties.
The Guardian provides a snapshot of the unprecedented demand hitting food banks:
  • In Amherst, home to the University of Massachusetts’ largest campus, the pantry distributed 849% more food in March compared with the previous year. The second-largest increase in western Massachusetts was 748% at the Pittsfield Salvation Army pantry.
  • The Grace Klein community food pantry in Jefferson county, which has the largest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Alabama, provided 5,076 individuals with food boxes last week – a 90% increase on the previous week.
  • In southern Arizona, demand has doubled, with pantries supplying groceries to 4,000 households every day – double the number supplied in March 2019. “We saw an increase during the federal government shutdown but nothing as rapid, massive or overwhelming as this,” said Michael McDonald, CEO of the Community Food Bank of South Arizona.
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So the new poor is now the working class as welfare recipients and immigrants are still getting their checks. :facepalm:
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So the new poor is now the working class as welfare recipients and immigrants are still getting their checks. :facepalm:
Their are people who recently been laid off from the jobs that were not on the welfare.  We have them in the
town I an living in. They have very little and no savings.
They are mostly all American citizens.

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Some of them should sell their cars and get a beater to they can feed their family, most of those cars look relatively brand new. How many of these people do you think have iPhone X's or some other expensive android device? Sitting in your air conditioned car for handouts is not true poverty.

I do however think that if this continues another month people will really start to go nuts and there will be real poverty once these people sell all their cars, electronics, Jєωelry and anything else of value they own.

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Some of them should sell their cars and get a beater to they can feed their family, most of those cars look relatively brand new. How many of these people do you think have iPhone X's or some other expensive android device? Sitting in your air conditioned car for handouts is not true poverty.

I do however think that if this continues another month people will really start to go nuts and there will be real poverty once these people sell all their cars, electronics, Jєωelry and anything else of value they own.
That assumes other people will have money to buy the things these people would want to sell.

My local gun mega-store has virtually nothing in stock in the more popular calibers.  Ditto for ammo.  This would be a good time to sell my S&W 9mm M&P.


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Don't be smug folks. If this goes on for much longer we will all be in that line.

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dymphnaw says: Don't be smug folks. If this goes on for much longer we will all be in that line.


But on another thread, you said words to the effect that mocked a person for saying there's going to be a financial collapse.

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"Breadlines" Erupt Across America as Lockdowns Crush America's "Working Poor"



“Breadlines” Erupt Across America As Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor”
TOPICS:Economic CollapsePovertyTyler Durden
April 11, 2020
By Tyler Durden
The economy has crashed into a depression, 16.78 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits, and consumer sentiment crashed the most on record. This American horror story has taken only three weeks to play out, the fastest and most severe economic crash in the country’s history, and still, we don’t know the true extent of the damage until the second half of the year.
However, the one thing we do know is that food bank networks across the country have reported unprecedented demand as a hunger crisis unfolds. Here’s our reporting on the evolution of the virus pandemic, which has morphed into a financial crash, and now social crisis:

And how do we know food bank networks are becoming “overwhelmed” across the country? Well, citizen journalists have launched their Chinese DJI drones overhead food banks to figure out why there are miles-long traffic jams of hangry people. And it appears that these lines are America’s new breadlines, similar to what was seen nine decades ago in the Great Depression.
“Hundreds of cars” waiting in line at a food bank in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, on March 30.
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Hundreds of cars wait to receive food from the Greater Community Food Bank in Duquesne. Collection begins at noon. @PghFoodBank @PittsburghPG pic.twitter.com/94YFaO7dqX
— Andrew Rush (@andrewrush) March 30, 2020
Here’s footage from April 2, docuмenting long lines of cars trying to get into the Feeding South Florida food bank, located in Broward County.




On Thursday, the San Antonio Food Bank, located in San Antonio, Texas, aided about 10,000 households with food.

“It was a rough one today,” said Food Bank president and CEO Eric Cooper after the largest distribution day in the nonprofit’s 40-year history. “We have never executed on as large of demand as we are now.”
Helicopter footage, courtesy of  shows the shocking aerial view of thousands of cars lined up at the food bank, waiting to receive a care pack.



Also, on Thursday, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank saw a “line of cars waiting for free groceries stretched about a mile,” reported Reuters. Hundreds of other people, many the working-class poor, lined the streets waiting for food:

Organizers of the food bank said 2,500 families were given a 36-pound box of rice, lentils, frozen chicken, oranges, and other food.