04/21/2023

U.S. Food Banks Warn of Strain as Lawmakers Seek Food Aid Cuts

President Joe Biden has pledged to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030

Across the United States, food banks are straining to meet spiking demand as high food costs and shrinking federal benefits drive scores of Americans to depend on free groceries, just as Republicans seek to narrow access to food assistance.

President Joe Biden, who this week criticized Republicans' proposals to further cut benefits in order to shrink the country's deficit, pledged last year to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030.

Food banks in Ohio, Atlanta, New Jersey, California and Washington State and national anti-hunger groups told Reuters that demand is rising because of inflation and the end of a temporary expansion of federal food assistance benefits that kept millions out of poverty during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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