USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks - POLITICO

"I certainly look at our lines and look at our shelves and say we need some relief," said Joree Novotny, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, which also reported canceled deliveries with no indication they would resume...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

 

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks - POLITICO

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms… 

The Trump administration's move to halt the programs comes as school nutrition officials are becoming increasingly anxious about affording healthy food with the current federal reimbursement rate for meals. As food costs have risen in the last few years, more people are turning to food banks and other feeding organizations to supplement their increased grocery bills. 

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer 'priorities,' and it's just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts," Healey said in a statement…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796

Food Banks See Rising Hunger Among Working Americans: CityLab Daily - Bloomberg

Food banks across the US are seeing a post-pandemic wave of demand driven by working people caught in America's cost-of-living crunch. In Flagstaff, Arizona, a pantry that served 127,000 meals in all of 2015 now serves 40,000 meals a month. In the Washington, DC, metro region, the Capital Area Food Bank distributed 5 million more meals than it did the previous fiscal year...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-27/food-banks-see-rising-hunger-among-working-americans-citylab-daily