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Emily Engelhard, the director of research at Feeding America, says two main factors are driving food insecurity across the region.
“One is that we are seeing the areas that historically have had the highest levels of food insecurity continue to have the highest levels of food insecurity,” she says – especially among people of color. And the second factor, Engelhard explains, is the tourism and service industries have been disproportionately affected, and those industries employ more people of color.
Food banks have become an increasingly critical source of food for families.
In Casper, Wyo. Mary Ann Budenske heads the Poverty Resistance Food Pantry. She started the organization in 1987 with five other women. Today, she runs the pantry herself and even uses her own cell phone as the organization s primary phone.
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