How food banks are rising to meet an increasing need

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Charities are struggling to find new ways to help record numbers of Americans who are out of work during the pandemic, adding to the millions who already experience food insecurity. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with food pantries in New York, Maine and California, whose work in their communities is being strained - by increased demand, costlier supplies, and a reduced workforce - and yet has never been more valuable.
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@bettysmith4641 4 жыл бұрын

Thank God for food banks and for the people who are able to donate 🙏

@cashed-out2192 4 жыл бұрын

Many of the new recipients are not food bank donors. Which is the reason they are running low. What should they do? Sell their assets.

@andyxfish 3 жыл бұрын

Thank god he sent trump to lead the nation. Oh wait, that never happened.

@solodrift6173 4 жыл бұрын

Listen,they have to stop telling farmers dump milk and vegetables and fruits get this surplus to American families we need all of it,we count even those who are preppers count please stop the waste.

@nghtwtchmn129 4 жыл бұрын

Farmers are plowing crops under because their contracts to sell to restaurants, schools, etc. disappeared. They don't like it any more than you do but right now they would lose even more money by harvesting these crops.

@emerybayblues 4 жыл бұрын

@@nghtwtchmn129 This is what people don't understand about the food system.. All the demand on grocery stores, pantries and banks can't make up for lack of demand from restaurants, education institutions, caterer, hotels. There may be a way to convert packaging a 20 lb bag of onions meant for a restaurant to something for a grocery store, but that costs millions of $$, and a farmer has to ask him/herself if it's worth the money to convert their packing process.

@icebergrose8955 4 жыл бұрын

Not the farmers fault. When they loose on a crop, they loose more if they try to harvest and than if give away. Government should buy crops then get military to take to the cities.

@templar1694 4 жыл бұрын

USA should mobilize its military to get those into food banks. What is the use of having a great military if it can't be utilize for this pandemic.

@MTknitter22 3 жыл бұрын

John D and health and local govt officials should be helping you with organizing options! You should not be criticized at all

@suzanne296 4 жыл бұрын

Was once a food pantry person. Don't be to proud when you have bills to pay. It's a hand to help.

@eileenlester4342 4 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@eileenlester4342 4 жыл бұрын

@M Detlef I always gave to food pantries until I lost my job. Only used once. Don't judge.

@cathiker 4 жыл бұрын

“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. -Dom Helder Camara

@peaches2220 4 жыл бұрын

Orange county. A very wealthy area. People coming for handouts in their big fancy cars...what about their 6 month emergency fund?

@nghtwtchmn129 4 жыл бұрын

A sheriff once told me that some of the people his department serves bad-check warrants against were country club members - they were living beyond their means.

@nghtwtchmn129 4 жыл бұрын

Conversely, according to the 1996 book The Millionaire Next Door, millionaires aren't so much people who make more than you and I as they are people who save and invest more than the rest of us. They do so by living below their means: driving Fords and Chevys rather than Cadillacs and Lincolns for example.

@peaches2220 4 жыл бұрын

@@nghtwtchmn129 I absolutely agree. We are each responsible for our destinies, as much as we can control. I would say that many people have been selfish, thinking about themselves and their "keeping up with the Jones's lifestyles". Now these same people are in line with their hands out, taking resources away from thos that are truly disadvantaged and are in true peril.

@nghtwtchmn129 4 жыл бұрын

I once heard a story of an old-time car dealer who would only sell new Cadillacs for cash, reasoning that anyone who had to go into debt for such a car didn't need it.

@emerybayblues 4 жыл бұрын

@@nghtwtchmn129 How many times have there been stories about someone who died, leaving behind a few million dollars to some charity organization, etc? Outwardly, they were modest though.

@letgo8118 3 жыл бұрын

I remember people saying to me why do you help. I say you don't know what's around the corner. Because one day you might need some help.

@tracimontgomery6515 4 жыл бұрын

Thank u for helping .

@carmelcapricorn7701 4 жыл бұрын

🥘🏦. Anything can help 4 who need it durning this time.

@eileenlester4342 4 жыл бұрын

God bless.

@debbieframpton3857 3 жыл бұрын

It's strange but at the food pantry I help at in Illinois our numbers have decreased since pandemic started we only get about a third of the people that we used to get

@AYoutubechannel1448 4 жыл бұрын

There should be second stimulus check.

@MTknitter22 3 жыл бұрын

yes Pelosi admitted she held it up for politics @Emilia

@debbieframpton3857 3 жыл бұрын

The Republican party is the one that didn't want to send the stimulus checks out

@paulvu2239 4 жыл бұрын

Food Banks CEOs are human Angels to our society... beautiful hearts and priceless and thank you from every American...

@johnnypham2850 Жыл бұрын

They take huge amounts of the funding

@Skyyylarful 4 жыл бұрын

Angels

@PO-PANDA 4 жыл бұрын

That red car driving away from the guy with food for them. 😬

@peaches2220 4 жыл бұрын

I am a little confused. The one thing that all financial planners and money managers say is the first thing you need to do is make sure you have a 6 month emergency fund in case something happens to your income. I am sure there are bona fide people in need, but we are only 1 or 2 months into most shutdowns and new people need food? Not to be critical, but are people making sure they have 6 months of emergency funds before they go buy their expensive toys and fancy cars?? Anyone else thinking the same??

@tonyfeller9676 4 жыл бұрын

yep. Americans suck at handling money. much short term pleasure, zero long term planning. anyone who doesn't follow Dave Ramsey, please do so

@peaches2220 4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyfeller9676 yes!! I love Dave Ramsey. Seriously, any financial planning advise always starts with .make sure you have your 6 month emergency fund. Then think about the next building blocks towards financial security...🤦‍♂️

@tonyfeller9676 4 жыл бұрын

@jim carroll The love of money is the root of all evil. some people use money to help other people, or animals, the environment, etc... i say humans have made a mess of money and our financial systems are one of the biggest reasons aliens won't speak with us. while Dave Ramsey is 1000% correct about money and personal finance the best financial move the world can make is to quit using money altogether and use a resource based economy instead. if you are not familiar with The Venus Project check out their documentaries on their KZfaq channel.

@tonyfeller9676 4 жыл бұрын

@jim carroll i think you will find the documentaries, plural, thought provoking. love the scene where Capt Picard says "you see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century."

@conjurerwoman9726 4 жыл бұрын

The six months of savings is the dream for most but not the reality, it is not for the lack of hard work. If corporations were paying the people who actually do the work a liveable wage, people would have money to save. Corporations pay the CEOs millions and the workers minimum wage. The employees make so little money that they qualify for Government assistance like food stamps; so in essence the Government is subsidizing these big businesses. Shame!

@YoniNadi 4 жыл бұрын

The able bodied unemployed people living in New York should receiving free food from the food banks, and pantries should seek employment in the agricultural industry in upstate New York helping the farmers harvest the produce! It’s frustrating waiting for a government check for being unemployed; and it’s frustrating waiting for free food handouts from the food banks, and pantries!

@vintagegal7376 3 жыл бұрын

wonder how these places are doing NOW...6 months later.

@MS-uk3qs 4 жыл бұрын

We understand that's it's a big adjustment to those people who never experienced getting food from food banks. However it's a matter of trying to adjust on this situation and survive. Set aside the ego of "US is a first world country and should never experienced this". Each and every country no matter what the status is trying to adjust its a matter of having a proper mindset. Be thankful for what you have try to discpline yourself adjust your spending habits and spend only for essential needs. No matter how difficult the situation we have to endure it and remember the famous saying "this too shall pass".

@ajbee4706 2 жыл бұрын

M S, well said!

@adamchavez999 4 жыл бұрын

We will learn a valuable lesson ,and this is the only way to learn it.

@walkerb1734 4 жыл бұрын

Not to sound cruel, but for far too long people have focused on living a life of immediate gratification. It seems to be more important to have the latest iPhones, big screen tv’s, computers, fancy cars, dinner at restaurants, etc. than saving for a rainy day. The concept of living below your means seems to have taken a backseat to having all the niceties of life. Well, it’s now a rainy day and the poor financial decisions of the past now have consequences. These are painful lessons, but hopefully it will be a good teaching lesson for many in society.

@crazysusanaita619 4 жыл бұрын

Understand what your saying . T aleast in our case we learned our listen and will always try and have $ in our savings ..

@mangalanalawade7595 4 жыл бұрын

NRG Houston food bank excellent

@illuminatim33 4 жыл бұрын

What's up with the 43,000 dollar trucks getting free food?

@adamchavez999 4 жыл бұрын

The food banks better think long term there will be no resolution anytime soon.

@lazarusblackwell6988 4 жыл бұрын

Hunger in the land of the "plenty" Thousands of tonnes of food is being thrown away every second and yet we have hungry people - -

@MTknitter22 3 жыл бұрын

It happens in Europe too

@foryou-ft8vf 4 жыл бұрын

Open back up the economy!

@crosscounty24 4 жыл бұрын

God bless these food banks

@cashed-out2192 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe a few of the new recipients will donate. Since they obviously drove to the head of the line, in their new SUVS, ahead of the regulars, that truly needed it.

@JasonFabus 4 жыл бұрын

It doesn't get much better than Tim Gill on trumpet... Follow his page everybody! kzfaq.info

@orlandolandez4128 3 жыл бұрын

They give food to people ... That's how...vduh

@EricMeatlikeaking 4 жыл бұрын

i'm skinny and poor so i went to the free grocery store

@johnsnowkumar359 4 жыл бұрын

In food banks and food pantries across America, one can get to try out or taste more varieties of free cans of food that one had never bought from the supermarket before.Whether it's one family like yours or mine or the family of Bill Gates or home of Joe Biden, we only try out so certain varieties of canned food and produce from the supermarket. In some states. At food pantries in some states, they fill up the cars with free stuff at local food pantries, partly because of the coronavirus.

@craigho3112 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone getting that lil box at the end of a 24 hour wait in lines gonna be mighty dissapointed..... People in prison get better food then that

@cocofluff 4 жыл бұрын

I love how Americans have lovely cars but no food. That car payment can buy alot of groceries. But why buy what you can get for free right? Even when they cant feed their families they wont part with luxuries.

@stoundingresults 4 жыл бұрын

You never know what their situation is. Maybe they had a steady job and recently lost it, these charities are a lifeline.

@MTknitter22 3 жыл бұрын

Europe is a mess - it is not just us

@user-kp2zm7xg7z 7 ай бұрын

Where are the jobs??

@outsideyang4621 3 жыл бұрын

Free foods only American!

@massib4523 4 жыл бұрын

The problem is shown at 4:42 who's begging for food while driving a Camaro????? Corona can reveal the real nature of people and will tell us alot about us!

@ecclairmayo4153 4 жыл бұрын

Omg I had to roll it back, I can't believe that was a Camaro! Thankfully most people in those lines werent driving expensive cars, or was just that one

@massib4523 4 жыл бұрын

@@ecclairmayo4153 most of them are expensive cars

@massib4523 4 жыл бұрын

@Sheldon Cooper we call this living beyond your means

@conjurerwoman9726 4 жыл бұрын

Do you know if it is their car? Do you know how old the car is? The world is in the middle of a Pandemic and all you can think of doing is judging someone getting some FOOD? The RICH love to divide and conquer poor people while they collect BILLIONS in Tax Cuts and SUBSIDES, aka corporate welfare! Food is something you give regardless of circumstances!

@massib4523 4 жыл бұрын

@@conjurerwoman9726 Sorry, just by looking the shape of the mirror, it's definitly a CAMARO 2019 and nobody lends a Camaro! I'm just saying that a lot of people are living beyond their means by buying unecessary stuff to make rich people even richer. And all of this starts at education and culture level which was shaped by banks and big corporates to gain more comodity and profit!

@rshopperocarolan7082 4 жыл бұрын

Transportation? Rural area? Distribution balance in location for all mankind? Thousands left out? Tax write off for waste? Interesting! Department of Agriculture needs to be overhauled. Health and Human Service on all Levels. Farm Bill's, Corporate, etc. Evidence, facts, laws, medical, housing, transportation, veterans, animals and etc. This is the United States. What can do do? Heart condition should be grateful and you can tell your families of generations what DID YOU DO to save people? How many died from a pandemic? Never say it can't happen to you! There was a Governor in the 1800's that helped immigrants farm there yards. His Friends refuse to donate shovels, etc, so he sold his prize horse to purchase the tools. This is what he said, "what are immigrants good at?" He was right. They obtain land, they have a job, they did not starve and they built. To boost the economy and helps their neighbors not a select few and started feeding those who homeless and lost jobs. Fact German prisoners worked the farms. Fact. Have a wonderful life before it's to late.

@horsehorse3590 3 жыл бұрын

hope dem win the 2 Senate seats in Jan, if not Mitch n republican senate will continue to block simulus package that go direct to General American ...

@smallflips8867 2 жыл бұрын

covids overrated

@andyxfish 3 жыл бұрын

Man, I can't take all of trump's winning anymore! (yes, that was sarcasm)

@MTknitter22 3 жыл бұрын

how ignorant an observation

@andyxfish 3 жыл бұрын

@@MTknitter22 What exactly is ignorant about it?

@CaptainJackSparrow110 4 жыл бұрын

Free food banks and food stamps are horrible and destroy families and are even counterproductive. The food given at food pantries take tremendous amounts of time, energy and money for overhead. The balance tips towards pollution from the transportation and recipients' vehicles -- more than if it was purchased at a store. The coordination costs a lot more than the cost of sellers at the grocery store. The grocery store loses customers to food pantries and that hurts them. The vast majority of people who receive food stamps and are at these free food programs are obese. Free food makes people obese. If the recipient is not underweight then giving her free food is harming her. Medicare pays for weight loss surgery and still gives that person food stamps. Put everyone who wants food stamps on a scale and only give stamps if she is underweight. Obviously, she is getting food somewhere if she's obese. Half the food given to recipients is thrown out. Nobody wants canned pumpkin and green beans. Stop having free food services. It's killing people!

@CaptainJackSparrow110 4 жыл бұрын

@TheOneAudioEngineer Thinking that just doing something will help matters is the basis of pathological altruism.

@Skyyylarful 4 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about.

@solodrift6173 4 жыл бұрын

Since you express yourself in that manner my Caucasian neighbors said (you should move to RUSSIA)

@CaptainJackSparrow110 4 жыл бұрын

@@solodrift6173 Not an argument.