![]() Please help us keep our pantry shelves stocked with food. Our vulnerable community members need to turn to food pantries right now, they have no other option. Here in New York’s Capital Region, our coalition of food pantries is already seeing service levels 20% higher than last year, which was our highest year ever. Staples for food pantries, like canned fruits and vegetables, are up more than 10%. It is unacceptable and irresponsible to make policy and budget decisions that reduce resources that force people into hunger.Īt this current moment the State of New York has flat funded the charitable food system, like food pantries, at a time where we are experiencing the highest service levels of our 44 year history, and food inflation is at 7.7% compared to last year at this time. Our Federal government is not taking care of our most vulnerable community members. They broke down crying, right there, in the checkout lane. They could not afford what they needed to eat to survive. They didn’t realize the emergency SNAP allocations has ended and their resource had been reduced to only $23 dollars. In the checkout lane they went to pay using their ebt/SNAP (food stamps). An older person was shopping at the grocery store. ![]() This week one of my team members shared the recent story of an individual facing a circumstance that absolutely should not be happening, but is. ![]()
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