Food insecurity driven by inflation has people with higher incomes turning to food banks
CBS, Mark Strassmann, Samantha M. Wender,
Inflation has more people turning to food banks for help, including people with six-figure incomes struggling to feed their families.
Chandra Kelsey of Wallingford, Connecticut, is a mother of three who works full-time as a program director at Yale’s School of Public Health and sometimes takes on a second job to make ends meet. In their household, two people take home a total of $150,000, but it’s often not enough.
“That’s not what you bring home after taxes. You know we have mortgage, insurance. We’ve got one kid on the way to college, one in college. Something as small as a $1,000 expense could throw things off significantly,” Kelsey said.
For Kelsey, food insecurity is a lifelong trauma, having visited food banks as a child.
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