Top US Food Bank Warns Of Nationwide Meal Shortages

Top US Food Bank Warns Of Nationwide Meal Shortages   The virus pandemic and resulting recession, crushing millions of households, has produced a new era of hunger nationwide. After seven months of the coronavirus chaos, triggering widespread unemployment and the collapse of small businesses, millions of Americans are going hungry for the first time in their lives ahead of the holiday season.    Tens of millions of Americans have turned to their local food banks as food insecurity spirals out of control. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey from late August, about 10% of adults, 22.3 million, reported they didn't have enough to eat or lacked food. This figure is up from 18 million in early March.    Now, Feeding America, a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks, serving more than 46 million people, is warning it may experience a massive food shortage within the next twelve months, reported WaPo.   Feeding America said it could face a deficit of "10 billion pound shortfall between now and June of 2021 – the equivalent of 8 billion meals."    LINK:   https://cutt.ly/Wgrt7km