Food inflation hits the poor hardest

October 27, 2021

Rising food prices are stretching the limited grocery budgets of low-income households thin. Many of these consumers are turning to food banks to make up their dietary shortfalls, but organizations tasked with feeding the poor are finding rising prices to be a challenge in procuring the amount of goods needed.

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