Economy. Between soaring grocery prices and a pause in federal food benefits, food pantry volunteers say they’re feeding record numbers of families, and fear the worst is yet to come.
The politics of hunger has been playing out since Nov. 1, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would not be issued starting Nov. 1, writing that “the well has run dry.”
A week later, many of the nearly 42 million Americans who receive...