- Food banks that supply food pantries across America with food to give away are overwhelmed.
- Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks, will need an additional $1.4 billion over the next six months.
- Demand has soared from millions of struggling newly unemployed due to coronavirus shutdowns.
- Food pantries are also closing due to lack of volunteers, many of whom are older and more vulnerable to COVID-19.
- To cope with closures and increasing demand, many food banks have opened food pick-up drive-throughs.
