"Breadlines" Erupt Across America as Lockdowns Crush America's "Working Poor"
“Breadlines” Erupt Across America As Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor”
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Economic CollapsePovertyTyler DurdenApril 11, 2020
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Tyler DurdenThe 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.
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.