LMS Post ~ Half New Yorkers Struggling to Pay for Groceries, Study Finds

This is not a shock. I worry especially in the elderly segment of the population. Younger adults can get out and try to find work and rely on schools to feed your kids and welfare, etc., etc., but when you are on a very strictly fixed income and not that mobile, like the elderly, you are really screwed. Also, I find the statistics interesting on college students, as should all of you.

This is depressing, when I get back in January, I am going to work with Mimi to get the LEAP group organized for anyone who wants to volunteer at City Harvest. Let me know if anyone is interested.



Half New Yorkers Struggling to Pay for Groceries, Study Finds

A report released Tuesday by the Food Bank for New York City has found that approximately four million New Yorkers—one in two—are having trouble paying for groceries, a 26 percent increase since the last survey in February. The Hunger Experience 2008 Update also found that college degrees are increasingly useless protection against indigence; one out of every three (36 percent) NYC college graduates had difficulty affording needed food this year, up from 11 percent in 2003. Lucy Cabrera, the food bank's president, says, "The results of this report are devastating. These numbers should be a wake-up call for all New Yorkers." The Food Bank NYC sources and distributes food to the estimated 1.3 million New Yorkers who rely on emergency food. Today you've got until noon to help the Food Bank by bidding on one of their cool celebrity decorated lunchboxes. (Just please don't outbid us on Mike D's Jacob the Jeweler box.)