The primary food bank which serves San Mateo and Santa Clara counties is seeing rising demand only slightly below pandemic-era highs. Higher food prices and layoffs are citied. Leaders say more support is needed from cities and the private sector.
counties, workers are busy packing up food boxes for distribution. "We get chicken, meat, milk, eggs, potatoes, rice, beans," said Teresita Rodriguez, a food bank recipient, through an interpreter. Rodriguez said the one box of food she gets each week helps to feed her family of six. "It helps our family because right now the prices of food are really high," Rodriguez said.
With food prices up, and recent rounds of layoffs, current demand is only slightly lower than the pandemic-era highs. At the peak of the pandemic, Second Harvest was helping about 500,000 people each month. The current number of people served each month is only about 8% below the pandemic high.
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