King County passes motion to help struggling food banks

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“Those funding pools kind of have just dried up, despite us seeing more people than during the pandemic,” Habenicht said.

King County has recently passed a measure that would identify resources to help local food banks struggling to meet the increased demand they have been facing amid rising inflation and limited federal support.

“It’s a really interesting turn of events for food banks, because we were seeing money that we had never seen before,” Habenicht said. “And we were also seeing government support as we had never seen before. So that came in the form of both dollars that we could use for food purchasing, and also actual products.”

But now that the pandemic is winding down, that money is beginning to run out, and local food banks have said donations are way down. “It’s no secret that grocery bills are soaring across King County, causing more and more folks to turn to their local food bank for help feeding their families,” King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn said in a statement. “In turn, our food banks need a little help so they can meet those increasing needs as operating costs rise.”, food prices have increased 10.8% since last August and inflation is up more than 8% from 2021.

 

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