It is an unfortunate sign of the times as pop-up emergency food distribution centers attempt to provide food assistance to those in need, especially during a period of rising prices, inflation, job furloughs, a government shutdown, and, at least for now, the end of government food assistance programs, such as SNAP.
“We generally see about 82,000 people per month, and move about 1.9 million pounds of food,” Andrea Blue, the president of Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank in Tacoma, said. “We’ve already surpassed that. We believe we will be over 100,000 people this month, and more than 2.5 million pounds of food.”
Eloise’s Cook Pot Food Bank sponsored a pop-up food distribution event. She expected to see about 400 cars, but more than 800 cars showed up, and they keep coming…