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Growing Trend: Food Pantry Donors Become Clients


Families line up for help from a Chicago food pantry on Aug. 13, 2008.
Source: CBS

The recession is forcing more middle class families to do something they never imagined – seeking help from food pantries. "I've never seen anything like this," Patricia Espy, director of the Center for Food Action, says. "This is a whole new game for us, in the sense that we're seeing more clients, but less donations." The number of families in need is growing. Across the country, 49 million people live in "food insecure" households. In New Jersey, that's 10 percent of all families; in New York and Connecticut, it's 11 percent of all families.

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