CLEVELAND — The situation has reached critical levels as inflation continues to strain household budgets across the state.
While pandemic-era food lines made headlines, current demand has quietly surpassed those emergency levels.
“From July through December of 2024, we served more food pantry visitors in that six-month span than we had in any six-month span in our 35-year history,” reports Joree Novotny, Executive Director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, a network of 12 Feeding America food banks and 3,600 hunger relief agencies…