Food banks are shuttering as they struggle to contend with the coronavirus and provide food relief to millions of people.
Volunteer help has dwindled because of social distancing and a fear of contracting and spreading the disease.
read moreFood banks are shuttering as they struggle to contend with the coronavirus and provide food relief to millions of people.
Volunteer help has dwindled because of social distancing and a fear of contracting and spreading the disease.
read moreCarol Peace sat in the driver’s seat of her car Wednesday morning. As the dark-colored sedan moved forward around the Harbor Square Mall parking lot, her trunk was popped open, and she was prepared to show her identification card.
read moreFood banks across New Jersey are having to make do with a lack of volunteers and staff during the coronavirus pandemic, as the need for food assistance increases.
read moreMany of our neighbors in need are already feeling the economic impact of COVID-19, while others find themselves struggling perhaps for the first time.
read moreIt was just after 6 p.m. on Thursday, at the intersection of hunger and illness, where the age-old scourge of food insecurity met the new coronavirus.
read moreMeet Daryl Walker, who went from drug runner to food master. Monica Guy caught up with him at the Food Service Training Academy.
read moreGus Rosendale speaks with Carlos Rodriguez, president and CEO of the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, about how to help those who are struggling this holiday season.
read moreOn November 6, the Community FoodBank of New Jersey held its first large-scale turkey distribution of the 2019 holiday season in Plainfield to enable our partner food panties and soup kitchens to pick up Thanksgiving turkeys and roasters for the…
read moreThe New York Times interviewed Carlos Rodriguez about the issue of lunch shaming.
read moreThis nation’s most effective hunger prevention program is under attack. Again.
The Trump Administration has proposed changing the rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food stamps) to take food away from an estimated 3.1 million people nationally.
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