The Next Layer Of People

The Next Layer Of People
Members of the middle class forced by the economic downturn to use food banks for the first time.

In a timely New York Times article on the rising demand for food assistance, Julie Bosman reported:

Once a crutch for the most needy, food pantries have responded to the deepening recession by opening their doors to what Rosemary Gilmartin, who runs the Interfaith Food Pantry [in Morristown, N.J.], described as “the next layer of people” - a rapidly expanding roster of child-care workers, nurse’s aides, real estate agents and secretaries facing a financial crisis for the first time.
Demand at food banks across the country increased by 30 percent in 2008 from the previous year, according to a survey by Feeding America, which distributes more than two billion pounds of food every year. And instead of their usual drop in customers after the holidays, many pantries in upscale suburbs this year are seeing the opposite.


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