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Food bank: the need now rivals the height of the pandemic, and 'there's no end in sight'

The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio
The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio
Episode • Jun 22, 2022 • 23m

Food banks are often the lifelines of our communities. They've seen and dealt with unprecedented need during the pandemic. And now, the pandemic is still going on but we're also seeing levels of inflation that we haven't seen in decades. So what kind of impact is that having on food banks? Fred Wasiak, President and CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey says they hoped the need would level off and keep going down when we started learning to live with COVID, but the need they're seeing now is actually rivaling the height of the pandemic.

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