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So you are seeing i think largely in the food sector that s where a lot of the burden is. arthel: yeah. and, listen, the holidays always a good time to give to food banks but especially now because there are a lot of people who are really dependent on them and many times often for the first time. how long do you think this is going to last, charles? well, doesn t look like an end is in immediate sight. general mills released a report in june where they expected it to continue to increase through 2022 and to combat that, they made note that they were doing pricing restructuring, some of their cereal, they were going to decrease the size to still maintain supply and not increase the cost on folks. so it seems like we re in for a long haul, and unfortunately for a lot of people, it s eroding savings, eroding financial gains they may have made. so i think we re going to be in for a tough time, but hopefully we can start to see some things turn around when supply chain ....
Here in houston you often see on the news there s short supply for waiters and waitresses, so waits at restaurants are longer, so it s the encouraging those people to come back to work. arthel: is there any sector or the country or business that s feeling it more than otherses? besides getting people to work, is there another work-around, charles? well, one note i did want to make is that recently there was a story here in, about central texas food bank which has seen a heavy burden because of the increase in inflation. and what they ve been doing, obviously, is serving folks who are in need, and in the region that they serve, 1 in 5 children are food insecure. so they were saying they re seeing $1 million per month in spending to try to feed these familiesings and that s up from $100,000 per month prior to the pandemic. and they associate a lot of these costs to inflation and having to pay more to assemble these food, the food trays to give out to folks. ....