Food banks, already struggling with high demand, are bracing themselves for an onslaught once emergency food stamps wind down: 'This is really, really going to hurt some of the most vulnerable populations'
And according to estimates shared with Insider by Roadrunner Food Bank, based on Feeding America's 2022 SNAP Impact Calculator Tool, a single-person household in New Mexico will lose out on 803 meals over 15 months. To make up that difference, according to Sonya Warwick, the director of communications for Roadrunner Food Bank in New Mexico, that single person would have to cough up roughly $2,425 more for food.
"We're talking about seniors choosing between medicine and food," Caples said."We're talking about our low-income working families, choosing between gas or paying utilities or a medical bill and food." "When you look at that on the total scale, that's many, many more millions of dollars just here in New York City, and, of course, billions of dollars across the country," Buess said.
"The reality today is that that emergency food supply has declined," Buess said."So we're on track to distribute less food this year than we were able to distribute last year because those resources just aren't available."
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