Hundreds of thousands of South Florida households will struggle to put food on the table this Thanksgiving.
Paco Velez is the CEO of the hunger-relief nonprofit Feeding South Florida, which hosts several meal distributions every year and is the leading hunger-relief organization serving Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. He said that holidays like Thanksgiving are toughest because they include traditional meals that people cannot afford to make.
The organization had 15,000 turkeys on hand this year — which still wasn’t enough to meet demand…