One in four Rhode Islanders can't meet basic food needs, food bank's annual report says

By artappraiser on Mon, 11/23/2020 - 4:07pm |

MY GOD—Hunger now returning “at a rate not seen since **Great Depression**”

This year, 25% of Rhode Islanders said they were unable to provide enough food for themselves and their families.

In 2019, it was only 9.1%.

RI isn’t even that poor a state.https://t.co/gTtCRHV5Y4
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 23, 2020

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https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2020/11/23/ri-food-banks-annual-report-compares-2020-hunger-great-depression/6318806002/

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Andrew Yang retweeted:

“People are running down their stock of savings — if they had any. ... Their ways of coping are starting to run out."https://t.co/MHEl1XamHc
— Humanity Forward (@HumanityForward) November 24, 2020