Hungry, jobless Americans turning to food banks to survive pandemic
People lining up outside a food bank in California, USA yesterday. Thousands of Americans who have suddenly lost their jobs are now relying on food banks and other forms of handouts to survive. – EPA pic, April 19, 2020.
AMERICAN families slammed by the coronavirus pandemic are turning more and more to food banks to get by, waiting hours for donations in lines of cars stretching as far as the eye can see. And with 22 million people out of work seemingly overnight as business after business closes under the Great Lockdown, these charities feeding hungry and scared people fear the day will come when they cannot cope with the tsunami of demand.
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