area holiday food drive. along with safeway. here with us today are ralph with the south heyward parish and susan with the l.a. community food bank. welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> our minds i think as a community have been preoccupied with so many things. the election. for one. are we paying attention to the shelves in our food banks do you think? what have we seen so far? >> one of the most interesting things i think is hunger's a year-round problem. we think it's great the community gets involved but it is a year-round problem. agencies are facing the problem that food supplies are short. >> how dire is it now? >> we've almost doubled the number of people we're serving last year at this time. and yet our funding from the local government and federal government have been cut 15% to 20%. emphasifamily sizes are growing. and the working poor, their hours are cut and they need food. it's not because they're not trying. it's because every agency's experiencing the same kind of increase. >> is the face of poverty the same or is it changing? >> i'm seeing definitely more men.
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