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Others who found themselves in fortunate circumstances gave money and donations to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the need has remained elevated, the generosity has trailed off, pushed out of mind by everything else going on in the world. According to the hunger-relief organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/food-bank-response-covid-numbers\">Feeding America\u003c/a>, in 2020 food banks nationwide distributed 6 billion meals, and 4 out of 10 people visiting food banks were there for the first time. As a result of the pandemic, an estimated 42 million people faced hunger nationwide in 2021. With the cost of food rising, it all adds up to a frightening outlook for our region's food assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum's Alexis Madrigal hosted a discussion on food insecurity and hunger in the Bay Area and about the outlook for 2023. Guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Regi Young\u003c/strong>, executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Jim Oswald\u003c/strong>, director of marketing and communications with Meals on Wheels, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin\u003c/strong>, longtime hunger and food insecurity reporter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal: What are the current trends right now that are really impacting food banks, not just here but across the country?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I would say that for food banks across the country, we are seeing a lot of similar challenges. For the most part, high inflation is making food costs a lot higher for food banks no matter where you're at within the country. But along with that, we're still seeing record needs since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, I would say that for a lot of food banks, what I'm hearing is that the need at the height of the pandemic is equal to what we are experiencing right now. And so the challenge of ensuring that everybody has a meal so that people are not going hungry within our community is even more challenging for food banks and their network of partners that they work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And on the donation side of it, the big Silicon Valley food bank [Second Harvest] has seen donations fall by almost 40% since the height of the pandemic two years ago. Is that same thing happening in other food banks, and is it indicative of a wider trend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I would say that's pretty consistent for us. Our costs have increased probably double from prior to the pandemic. But we are anticipating that we're going to see an 11% decrease in funding this fiscal year for us. And so it is a challenge, because we are not seeing the changes in need within our community. We're not seeing the changes in the number of people that are coming to the pantries and wanting food and the long lines that are present there. And so for us, it is critically important that we are still able to serve at the same rate that we were doing a year ago or two years ago. And the resources are not the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937354\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937354\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-packed meals in a fridge awaiting delivery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinners prepared by Meals on Wheels in the kitchen at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale St. in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the price of food right now, to give people a sense of the kind of the systemic problems that have been leading to this rise in the cost of staples, like eggs and chicken.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I think it's almost impossible to go to the grocery store right now and not notice the sky-high food prices. There are a couple of things at play here. One is that we are in a global food crisis right now, and there are a couple of contributing factors there like climate change and the ongoing war in Ukraine. These have impacted some of our staple crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, last summer we saw really intense heat waves in Europe. We saw drought in China. We saw extensive flooding in Pakistan that has impacted staple crops like rice and corn, for example. As for the war in Ukraine, it has significantly impacted the global wheat supply because Ukraine and Russia are both global exporters of wheat. One economist I talked to likened this conflict to a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and how that would likely lead to an oil crisis, while in this case it's led to a wheat crisis. But at the same time, food companies have taken advantage of this moment and of this opportunity and are raising their prices even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So companies like Tyson, General Mills and Cargill are seeing record profits even amid all of these staple crop shortages. I talked to an economist, William Spriggs, who said this is kind of like price gouging. He compared it to going to Florida after a hurricane and selling bottled water for $20 a bottle. If you did that, you would get arrested because that is illegal. But we just don't have the legal infrastructure in place to handle price gouging at such a massive scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do these rising food prices weigh on individual people who are trying to make ends meet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I just want to start out by saying that I am so grateful to the folks that I've talked to for my stories. I know it's an incredibly delicate issue. In my most recent piece that I wrote for Civil Eats, I spoke with a woman named Gilmer Dominguez who is a single mom living in LA with her son JP, who is on the autism spectrum and who has a really strict diet and isn't as flexible as others in terms of being able to substitute cheaper foods into his diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She receives monthly allotments through SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps. She is a refugee from El Salvador. She came here in the last few years seeking refuge. I spoke with her just a few weeks ago on the phone, and she receives about $400 or so a month through SNAP. But she just told me that it's simply not enough for her and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me a story about standing in line at the grocery store and watching as the cashier beeped each item that she was buying. And the total just kept rising and rising and rising. And she ended up just having a panic attack there in the grocery store line because of how overwhelming that experience is where she's just not used to seeing prices so high and her SNAP dollars don't go as far as they once did. She told me her SNAP allotment used to cover almost three weeks of groceries. It's intended to cover the month, but it used to cover about three weeks. Now it barely covers two. So she's really struggling to make ends meet. And I've talked to others who are in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you seen any changes in the different types of people who are availing themselves of these services at the Alameda County Community Food Bank since the pandemic hit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Absolutely. So the challenge of food insecurity was already a major issue prior to the pandemic. But what we ended up seeing was a large number of new recipients, first-time users of a food pantry or a food bank. That number began to rise dramatically during the pandemic and is still the case right now. We have a call center at the food bank, and about 30% of the callers calling for some form of food assistance are first-time users of food assistance. This challenge is already so difficult, and now we're seeing it expanded to a variety of different people that may have never thought they would be here. And these are folks out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A warehouse with shelves of food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wholesale packages of canned food line the shelves at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, on Nov. 20, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think that change is kind of permanent, unless we made an all-out effort to change the situation that existed even pre-pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I do think there are some long-lasting effects that may be present if costs stay high, particularly for us in the Bay Area. The cost of living is just high in general. And so what we're seeing is a confluence of issues and really a heightened awareness of where to access food, even for those people who may have needed it but did not know where to go prior to the pandemic and prior to all the media coverage on food insecurity. I absolutely think there's a lot of things that we can do to mitigate this issue. In fact, I think that food insecurity could be eradicated in the Bay Area with the right political will and resources, because I feel like the money is there. But yeah, this will be a challenge that we are going to deal with for a long time if there's not some dramatic changes that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> I know that there's different ways of calculating food insecurity, but by your best estimates at Alameda County Community Food Bank, how many people do you think are actually experiencing this in Alameda County and in the East Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Our estimate is that there are about 1 in 4 people that are dealing with some form of food insecurity within Alameda County. And this was 1 in 5 prior to the pandemic itself. And so about 25% of the population may need some form of this and may not know where their next meal is coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you talk about the number of people aging in place? The pandemic put incredible strain on nursing homes and on other places where our elders live. Maybe more of them have decided to stay at home. What has that done for Meals on Wheels?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Oswald:\u003c/strong> It truly has increased. Our capacity was overflowing, as Regi said. We saw an increase in need as well at Meals on Wheels in San Francisco. Here's the reality: In San Francisco, by 2030, 30% of the population will be aged 60 and older. Nationwide, 12,000 Americans are turning 60 each day, and many of those seniors will need resources. Just before the pandemic, we were serving roughly 3,500 seniors a day who rely on us for home-delivered meals. That number skyrocketed in the first year of the pandemic, almost by about 200%. And that included partnering with the city and county of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meals on Wheels, San Francisco ultimately operate in what's called the isolation and quarantine hotline, so anyone of any age who was impacted by COVID called us and, partnering with the SF–Marin Food Bank, we prepared meals and delivered them out to people who could not get out and get food. The reality is these problems have always been there, accessibility and affordability. Many of our seniors, almost 72% of them that receive our meals, live on less than $1,000 a month here in San Francisco, which is really hard to fathom. I spoke with a really charming lady a number of years ago who said that after she pays her bills, her rent and everything, she had exactly maybe $100 left for the entire month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So imagine trying to purchase and get well-balanced meals that are healthy for you. She literally told me that sometimes she would just drink water to feel full. That's really powerful. We owe it to our communities to support them. And it starts, certainly, with funding. But it's much more than that. It's providing the resources down the line to be able to take care of people as they age in place.[aside postID=news_11897177 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS61678_GettyImages-1241546546-qut-1020x703.jpg']\u003cstrong>Does SNAP go far enough? It was my understanding that SNAP got a bump up during the pandemic. Is that going to go away, or is that permanent? What's the state of SNAP now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> There were various pandemic relief programs in place over the past few years. Those bumps you were talking about, those were emergency allotments for SNAP that brought many households up to the maximum allotment levels. Those are still active in California. So CalFresh recipients should still be seeing those emergency allotments, while many other states have already phased those out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in the latest spending bill passed at the very end of 2022, just last month, Congress decided to end those emergency allotments and instead use that money to permanently fund a summer EBT (electronic benefits transfer) program, which is another food assistance program which would basically provide meals to qualifying students during the summer. So this is something that anti-hunger advocates are very excited about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the biggest federal nutrition programs in 50 years. But there's mixed feelings, of course, with those emergency allotments from the pandemic being phased out and shifting that money over to this new program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President Biden convened one of the first hunger conferences in 50 years. Have you seen any kind of tangible impact from what seems like an attempt at the federal level to focus more attention in aid on the issue of hunger in America?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Since this was the second convening, we did see huge increases for really addressing food insecurity, like traces of SNAP increases in the farm bill and so forth. And so we are anticipating that there are going to be a lot of changes with hunger relief efforts from the federal level and with that passing on to the states themselves. I think for me, one of the things that we're really excited about is the opportunity for increases in things like SNAP itself, because I think it is the most successful hunger relief program in American history. And the more we're able to not try to supplement people's food and take away the choices that they may have but instead provide them the money to be able to get the food that they need for their health concerns and for their families, that's always going to be the better choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly white woman sorts through canned food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime volunteer Yvette Hash sorts shelf-stable food from the donation bins at Alameda County Community Food Bank to make meal boxes. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk to me about Alameda County and the kind of help people can get. And do you think it's adequate for the area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> You have to be able to show up where people are to make it as easy as possible for people to be able to sign up for SNAP itself. The pantry aspect of it is one component, but signing up people for SNAP is a major component for ensuring that people are not going hungry. When I think about Alameda County specifically, we have a lot of strengths. We have a community that's really settled in our social justice, we have a community that's very entrepreneurial by nature, but we also have a lot of challenges ahead of us. We're fortunate that we have a lot of partners. We have over 400 community partners in Alameda County to help support the food bank by allocating food directly out to people in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the challenge that we have is that the costs that people are seeing in the grocery stores are also the costs that we're experiencing as a food bank. But unlike a for-profit company, we're not able to pass on the cost of our foods to the consumers. Everything that we get, we're paying for and giving it out for free. And so the biggest challenge that we're going to have as a county, really as the Bay Area as a whole, is around cost in general — not only inflation, but the fact that the cost of living in the Bay Area is so expensive for folks. We have a resilient, brilliant community base that are receiving our food. One woman we spoke with was literally walking to a food distribution, packing the food and walking home with it so that she could save costs on her gas so that she can navigate to other places and go do work, go do other things that she needs in the course of saving on the food and on the gas, which was beneficial for her to be able to manage that household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so what we're going to continue to see is that people are going to come up with creative solutions to be able to put food on their tables and to meet their needs. But it should not be so hard. And so the things that we're thinking about with our partners is how do we ensure that we have the policies in place, that we have the political will, that we have the backing to make those choices a lot easier for our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED Forum's Alexis Madrigal talked to three people on the front lines of the daily struggle to provide sustenance to the growing numbers of people facing food insecurity in the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1673417700,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":2915},"headData":{"title":"Food Banks Struggle to Serve Communities Amid Inflation, COVID and Cost of Living | KQED","description":"KQED Forum's Alexis Madrigal talked to three people on the front lines of the daily struggle to provide sustenance to the growing numbers of people facing food insecurity in the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC9463025313.mp3?","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11937317/food-banks-struggle-to-serve-communities-amid-inflation-covid-and-cost-of-living","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At the beginning of the pandemic, food banks were hit with two simultaneous surges: one, of need, as the economy got thrown into chaos, and two, of generosity, as millions found themselves suddenly out of work. Others who found themselves in fortunate circumstances gave money and donations to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the need has remained elevated, the generosity has trailed off, pushed out of mind by everything else going on in the world. According to the hunger-relief organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/food-bank-response-covid-numbers\">Feeding America\u003c/a>, in 2020 food banks nationwide distributed 6 billion meals, and 4 out of 10 people visiting food banks were there for the first time. As a result of the pandemic, an estimated 42 million people faced hunger nationwide in 2021. With the cost of food rising, it all adds up to a frightening outlook for our region's food assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum's Alexis Madrigal hosted a discussion on food insecurity and hunger in the Bay Area and about the outlook for 2023. Guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Regi Young\u003c/strong>, executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Jim Oswald\u003c/strong>, director of marketing and communications with Meals on Wheels, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin\u003c/strong>, longtime hunger and food insecurity reporter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal: What are the current trends right now that are really impacting food banks, not just here but across the country?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I would say that for food banks across the country, we are seeing a lot of similar challenges. For the most part, high inflation is making food costs a lot higher for food banks no matter where you're at within the country. But along with that, we're still seeing record needs since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, I would say that for a lot of food banks, what I'm hearing is that the need at the height of the pandemic is equal to what we are experiencing right now. And so the challenge of ensuring that everybody has a meal so that people are not going hungry within our community is even more challenging for food banks and their network of partners that they work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And on the donation side of it, the big Silicon Valley food bank [Second Harvest] has seen donations fall by almost 40% since the height of the pandemic two years ago. Is that same thing happening in other food banks, and is it indicative of a wider trend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I would say that's pretty consistent for us. Our costs have increased probably double from prior to the pandemic. But we are anticipating that we're going to see an 11% decrease in funding this fiscal year for us. And so it is a challenge, because we are not seeing the changes in need within our community. We're not seeing the changes in the number of people that are coming to the pantries and wanting food and the long lines that are present there. And so for us, it is critically important that we are still able to serve at the same rate that we were doing a year ago or two years ago. And the resources are not the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937354\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937354\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-packed meals in a fridge awaiting delivery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinners prepared by Meals on Wheels in the kitchen at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale St. in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the price of food right now, to give people a sense of the kind of the systemic problems that have been leading to this rise in the cost of staples, like eggs and chicken.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I think it's almost impossible to go to the grocery store right now and not notice the sky-high food prices. There are a couple of things at play here. One is that we are in a global food crisis right now, and there are a couple of contributing factors there like climate change and the ongoing war in Ukraine. These have impacted some of our staple crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, last summer we saw really intense heat waves in Europe. We saw drought in China. We saw extensive flooding in Pakistan that has impacted staple crops like rice and corn, for example. As for the war in Ukraine, it has significantly impacted the global wheat supply because Ukraine and Russia are both global exporters of wheat. One economist I talked to likened this conflict to a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and how that would likely lead to an oil crisis, while in this case it's led to a wheat crisis. But at the same time, food companies have taken advantage of this moment and of this opportunity and are raising their prices even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So companies like Tyson, General Mills and Cargill are seeing record profits even amid all of these staple crop shortages. I talked to an economist, William Spriggs, who said this is kind of like price gouging. He compared it to going to Florida after a hurricane and selling bottled water for $20 a bottle. If you did that, you would get arrested because that is illegal. But we just don't have the legal infrastructure in place to handle price gouging at such a massive scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do these rising food prices weigh on individual people who are trying to make ends meet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I just want to start out by saying that I am so grateful to the folks that I've talked to for my stories. I know it's an incredibly delicate issue. In my most recent piece that I wrote for Civil Eats, I spoke with a woman named Gilmer Dominguez who is a single mom living in LA with her son JP, who is on the autism spectrum and who has a really strict diet and isn't as flexible as others in terms of being able to substitute cheaper foods into his diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She receives monthly allotments through SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps. She is a refugee from El Salvador. She came here in the last few years seeking refuge. I spoke with her just a few weeks ago on the phone, and she receives about $400 or so a month through SNAP. But she just told me that it's simply not enough for her and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me a story about standing in line at the grocery store and watching as the cashier beeped each item that she was buying. And the total just kept rising and rising and rising. And she ended up just having a panic attack there in the grocery store line because of how overwhelming that experience is where she's just not used to seeing prices so high and her SNAP dollars don't go as far as they once did. She told me her SNAP allotment used to cover almost three weeks of groceries. It's intended to cover the month, but it used to cover about three weeks. Now it barely covers two. So she's really struggling to make ends meet. And I've talked to others who are in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you seen any changes in the different types of people who are availing themselves of these services at the Alameda County Community Food Bank since the pandemic hit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Absolutely. So the challenge of food insecurity was already a major issue prior to the pandemic. But what we ended up seeing was a large number of new recipients, first-time users of a food pantry or a food bank. That number began to rise dramatically during the pandemic and is still the case right now. We have a call center at the food bank, and about 30% of the callers calling for some form of food assistance are first-time users of food assistance. This challenge is already so difficult, and now we're seeing it expanded to a variety of different people that may have never thought they would be here. And these are folks out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A warehouse with shelves of food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wholesale packages of canned food line the shelves at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, on Nov. 20, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think that change is kind of permanent, unless we made an all-out effort to change the situation that existed even pre-pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I do think there are some long-lasting effects that may be present if costs stay high, particularly for us in the Bay Area. The cost of living is just high in general. And so what we're seeing is a confluence of issues and really a heightened awareness of where to access food, even for those people who may have needed it but did not know where to go prior to the pandemic and prior to all the media coverage on food insecurity. I absolutely think there's a lot of things that we can do to mitigate this issue. In fact, I think that food insecurity could be eradicated in the Bay Area with the right political will and resources, because I feel like the money is there. But yeah, this will be a challenge that we are going to deal with for a long time if there's not some dramatic changes that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> I know that there's different ways of calculating food insecurity, but by your best estimates at Alameda County Community Food Bank, how many people do you think are actually experiencing this in Alameda County and in the East Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Our estimate is that there are about 1 in 4 people that are dealing with some form of food insecurity within Alameda County. And this was 1 in 5 prior to the pandemic itself. And so about 25% of the population may need some form of this and may not know where their next meal is coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you talk about the number of people aging in place? The pandemic put incredible strain on nursing homes and on other places where our elders live. Maybe more of them have decided to stay at home. What has that done for Meals on Wheels?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Oswald:\u003c/strong> It truly has increased. Our capacity was overflowing, as Regi said. We saw an increase in need as well at Meals on Wheels in San Francisco. Here's the reality: In San Francisco, by 2030, 30% of the population will be aged 60 and older. Nationwide, 12,000 Americans are turning 60 each day, and many of those seniors will need resources. Just before the pandemic, we were serving roughly 3,500 seniors a day who rely on us for home-delivered meals. That number skyrocketed in the first year of the pandemic, almost by about 200%. And that included partnering with the city and county of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meals on Wheels, San Francisco ultimately operate in what's called the isolation and quarantine hotline, so anyone of any age who was impacted by COVID called us and, partnering with the SF–Marin Food Bank, we prepared meals and delivered them out to people who could not get out and get food. The reality is these problems have always been there, accessibility and affordability. Many of our seniors, almost 72% of them that receive our meals, live on less than $1,000 a month here in San Francisco, which is really hard to fathom. I spoke with a really charming lady a number of years ago who said that after she pays her bills, her rent and everything, she had exactly maybe $100 left for the entire month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So imagine trying to purchase and get well-balanced meals that are healthy for you. She literally told me that sometimes she would just drink water to feel full. That's really powerful. We owe it to our communities to support them. And it starts, certainly, with funding. But it's much more than that. It's providing the resources down the line to be able to take care of people as they age in place.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11897177","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS61678_GettyImages-1241546546-qut-1020x703.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does SNAP go far enough? It was my understanding that SNAP got a bump up during the pandemic. Is that going to go away, or is that permanent? What's the state of SNAP now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> There were various pandemic relief programs in place over the past few years. Those bumps you were talking about, those were emergency allotments for SNAP that brought many households up to the maximum allotment levels. Those are still active in California. So CalFresh recipients should still be seeing those emergency allotments, while many other states have already phased those out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in the latest spending bill passed at the very end of 2022, just last month, Congress decided to end those emergency allotments and instead use that money to permanently fund a summer EBT (electronic benefits transfer) program, which is another food assistance program which would basically provide meals to qualifying students during the summer. So this is something that anti-hunger advocates are very excited about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the biggest federal nutrition programs in 50 years. But there's mixed feelings, of course, with those emergency allotments from the pandemic being phased out and shifting that money over to this new program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President Biden convened one of the first hunger conferences in 50 years. Have you seen any kind of tangible impact from what seems like an attempt at the federal level to focus more attention in aid on the issue of hunger in America?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Since this was the second convening, we did see huge increases for really addressing food insecurity, like traces of SNAP increases in the farm bill and so forth. And so we are anticipating that there are going to be a lot of changes with hunger relief efforts from the federal level and with that passing on to the states themselves. I think for me, one of the things that we're really excited about is the opportunity for increases in things like SNAP itself, because I think it is the most successful hunger relief program in American history. And the more we're able to not try to supplement people's food and take away the choices that they may have but instead provide them the money to be able to get the food that they need for their health concerns and for their families, that's always going to be the better choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly white woman sorts through canned food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime volunteer Yvette Hash sorts shelf-stable food from the donation bins at Alameda County Community Food Bank to make meal boxes. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk to me about Alameda County and the kind of help people can get. And do you think it's adequate for the area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> You have to be able to show up where people are to make it as easy as possible for people to be able to sign up for SNAP itself. The pantry aspect of it is one component, but signing up people for SNAP is a major component for ensuring that people are not going hungry. When I think about Alameda County specifically, we have a lot of strengths. We have a community that's really settled in our social justice, we have a community that's very entrepreneurial by nature, but we also have a lot of challenges ahead of us. We're fortunate that we have a lot of partners. We have over 400 community partners in Alameda County to help support the food bank by allocating food directly out to people in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the challenge that we have is that the costs that people are seeing in the grocery stores are also the costs that we're experiencing as a food bank. But unlike a for-profit company, we're not able to pass on the cost of our foods to the consumers. Everything that we get, we're paying for and giving it out for free. And so the biggest challenge that we're going to have as a county, really as the Bay Area as a whole, is around cost in general — not only inflation, but the fact that the cost of living in the Bay Area is so expensive for folks. We have a resilient, brilliant community base that are receiving our food. One woman we spoke with was literally walking to a food distribution, packing the food and walking home with it so that she could save costs on her gas so that she can navigate to other places and go do work, go do other things that she needs in the course of saving on the food and on the gas, which was beneficial for her to be able to manage that household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so what we're going to continue to see is that people are going to come up with creative solutions to be able to put food on their tables and to meet their needs. But it should not be so hard. And so the things that we're thinking about with our partners is how do we ensure that we have the policies in place, that we have the political will, that we have the backing to make those choices a lot easier for our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11937317/food-banks-struggle-to-serve-communities-amid-inflation-covid-and-cost-of-living","authors":["11757","11812"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21602","news_32266","news_21161","news_32267"],"featImg":"news_11937356","label":"news"},"news_11671927":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11671927","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11671927","score":null,"sort":[1527878079000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-grass-roots-effort-to-feed-the-poor-is-growing-burrito-by-burrito","title":"A Grass-Roots Effort to Feed the Poor Is Growing, Burrito By Burrito","publishDate":1527878079,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Jimmy Ryan's recipe for burritos is really pretty simple. It calls for 50 pounds of rice, 50 pounds of beans, a couple of cases of canned tomatoes and several hundred tortillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may sound like a lot, but Ryan is one of the organizers of the \u003ca href=\"https://burritoprojectsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burrito Project\u003c/a> in San Francisco, an informal charity that makes and distributes about 500 burritos to the homeless once a month. On May 21, the group celebrated its second anniversary and rolled its 10,000th burrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Burritos are grab and go,\" Ryan says. \"You can pack protein in there and some vegetables and they're easy to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The desire to distribute healthy, easily portable burritos is catching on. Ryan brought the idea with him from Los Angeles, where the Burrito Project concept was born more than a decade ago. There are now a half-dozen groups in the L.A. area alone, with welcome copycats spreading across the West and as far away as Florida and Quebec.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of the entities have registered as 501(c)3 charities, but others remain completely informal. Anyone is allowed to use the name as long as they're providing burritos and not making any money off the service. \"From what I understand, we have one of the only burrito projects that runs four days a week,\" says Rai Doty, a coordinator in Salt Lake City. \"Four days a week, we feed 200 to 500 people a night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p10404041-fb20eab30fc96338acf461f080b041ded020e027-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some Burrito Project volunteers, including organizer Michael Walters, show up early to cook the rice and beans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Burrito Project volunteers, including organizer Michael Walters, show up early to cook the rice and beans. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The groups rely on a mix of donated food and sponsorships. In San Francisco, different companies pay the bills each month, helping out with both funding and manpower. For the anniversary event, 15 people showed up from \u003ca href=\"https://www.redbubble.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9LPYBRDSARIsAHL7J5kmZ-pwn8kGompRqKczfpFhHZQkMS4nYetHaCq8OijYHgZYdgMVHLMaAoiiEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redbubble\u003c/a>, a digital art marketplace. \"It's important to show our employees the community we live in and take accountability for it,\" says Michael Kyle, a manager with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd on that Monday was mostly young and white, but several other racial and ethnic groups were represented, with at least one grandmother helping out. For some, this effort represents just one stop along their personal charity journeys, which also include efforts such as working at animal shelters or churches. But for others, this was a quick and painless way to give back, requiring less effort or time commitment than volunteering at some of the more established nonprofits in town. Those who walked in saying they don't normally cook found that they could certainly chop and scoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several participants said they showed up because the Burrito Project simply sounds like a fun charity. In San Francisco, one of the world's great foodie capitals, the humble burrito retains an outsized place in the culinary imagination, with competing burrito palaces in the Mission District drawing long lines day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Burritos hit my self-interest,\" says retired volunteer Calvin Pon. \"When I saw an article about it, I thought, 'Burritos? I love burritos!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p1040442-1-f192bd814a3e0aecb444ec4ad2f32b0d6c1503fd-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Once the assembly line got going, a mix of regular and newbie volunteers were able to put together hundreds of burritos in an hour.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the assembly line got going, a mix of regular and newbie volunteers were able to put together hundreds of burritos in an hour. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once people learn about the ongoing event through news accounts or social media, there tends to be a ripple effect — participants bring friends along the next time around. The organizers say they're trying to make the event fun and welcoming, asking everyone to introduce themselves and providing kombucha and cake to celebrate their anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Winterholter used to routinely come to help. When Winterholter moved to Denver for a job, he brought the idea with him. During their first outing last month, they served 279 burritos to the homeless. His new employer, the restaurant group Bonanno Concepts, is donating all the ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out here, they're really hungry, because they don't have all the services they do in San Francisco,\" Winterholter says. \"When we showed up, they were literally running to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, volunteers from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and other cyclists go wherever the homeless might be found, carrying homemade Google maps that display encampment areas the group has come across over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each cyclist stuffs a bag with 20 or 30 burritos. The general rule is one per customer, but no one who asks for a second is refused. Ingredients may vary depending on donations, but the burritos are kept vegan so they won't go bad if they're saved for a day or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A few people want meat, but they're a vocal minority,\" says Nic Fontaine, who regularly helps hand them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soup kitchen that allows the Burrito Project to use its kitchen is located on the edge of the Mission District, which is ground zero for gentrification pressures in San Francisco. It's still a melting pot of Mexican fruit markets, meditative cafes and radical-left bookshops, but a million-dollar apartment in the neighborhood would now be considered a steal. The Mission has become a prime disembarkation point for the controversial private buses that drop off employees coming home from work at companies such as Google, Facebook and Genentech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p1040410-3211765d5a640f1c44b826cafdef62aa1ad431b9-800x600.jpg\" alt='As part of the prep, Wayne Cheung (left), Wendy Dwyer and Michael Kyle separate tortillas. \"I find it very gratifying,\" says Cheung, who started volunteering in February. \"I might do this as long as the project lasts.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of the prep, Wayne Cheung (left), Wendy Dwyer and Michael Kyle separate tortillas. \"I find it very gratifying,\" says Cheung, who started volunteering in February. \"I might do this as long as the project lasts.\" \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are visible homeless people all over the Mission, out on the streets and under the elevated sections of Highway 101 that ring a portion of the neighborhood. Several of the volunteers who showed up at the most recent event spoke openly about wanting to do something to assuage the sense of guilt that comes from thriving in tech or finance in a boom city where so many are left with nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burrito Project encourages volunteers not just to hand out food, but to stop and interact with individuals who are often neglected or avoided. \"Obviously, my daughter sees a lot of homeless people,\" says Rahul Young, a Mission resident who brought Ione, his 7-year-old daughter, to participate. \"This is a way of helping her understand all parts of the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one is under the illusion that handing out an occasional burrito is going to solve anyone's problems. Some Burrito Project outposts try to do more than occasionally feed people. During the snowy season in Salt Lake City, the group partners with Warm the Homeless, which distributes blankets, coats and hats. The long-running project in Bakersfield has been adopted by high school and church groups who hand out clothes and shoes when there are donations. Their ninth anniversary event on July 8 will provide a forum for representatives from other local groups that provide housing, health and legal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p10404221-8658ffc2a83a990dc73b97c21c2310c9408c2dac-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"You can't judge how hungry people living on the streets might be, says Emily Durenberger, pouring sauce when she's not busy orienting new volunteers. It's important not just to feed but interact with people who are too often ignored, she says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can't judge how hungry people living on the streets might be, says Emily Durenberger, pouring sauce when she's not busy orienting new volunteers. It's important not just to feed but interact with people who are too often ignored, she says. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At its most recent event, the San Francisco Burrito Project happened to have donated chips and coconut water to give away, along with hygiene kits put together by volunteer Anna Hurst and her friends as a birthday project. \"I don't know what the solution is,\" she says, \"but at least this gives them something to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients seemed to appreciate it. Al Lewis has been living on the streets for nearly 30 years, the consequence of a long-ago addiction to crack cocaine, although he says he's been clean for a couple of years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a regular client at the soup kitchen where the San Francisco Burrito Project is located. The occasional burrito makes a nice break, Lewis says, from the potato soup, barley and oatmeal he's usually served there. \"I prefer burritos,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+Grass-Roots+Effort+To+Feed+The+Poor+Is+Growing%2C+Burrito+By+Burrito&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Burrito-making get-togethers are sprouting up around the U.S. to distribute healthy, grab-and-go meals, as well as provide people a fun way to help out and get involved with their communities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1527893897,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1342},"headData":{"title":"A Grass-Roots Effort to Feed the Poor Is Growing, Burrito By Burrito | KQED","description":"Burrito-making get-togethers are sprouting up around the U.S. to distribute healthy, grab-and-go meals, as well as provide people a fun way to help out and get involved with their communities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11671927 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11671927","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/01/a-grass-roots-effort-to-feed-the-poor-is-growing-burrito-by-burrito/","disqusTitle":"A Grass-Roots Effort to Feed the Poor Is Growing, Burrito By Burrito","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Alan Greenblatt","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Alan Greenblatt\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"615212791","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=615212791&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/01/615212791/a-grassroots-effort-to-feed-the-poor-is-growing-burrito-by-burrito?ft=nprml&f=615212791","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:04:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:52:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:04:21 -0400","path":"/news/11671927/a-grass-roots-effort-to-feed-the-poor-is-growing-burrito-by-burrito","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jimmy Ryan's recipe for burritos is really pretty simple. It calls for 50 pounds of rice, 50 pounds of beans, a couple of cases of canned tomatoes and several hundred tortillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may sound like a lot, but Ryan is one of the organizers of the \u003ca href=\"https://burritoprojectsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burrito Project\u003c/a> in San Francisco, an informal charity that makes and distributes about 500 burritos to the homeless once a month. On May 21, the group celebrated its second anniversary and rolled its 10,000th burrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Burritos are grab and go,\" Ryan says. \"You can pack protein in there and some vegetables and they're easy to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The desire to distribute healthy, easily portable burritos is catching on. Ryan brought the idea with him from Los Angeles, where the Burrito Project concept was born more than a decade ago. There are now a half-dozen groups in the L.A. area alone, with welcome copycats spreading across the West and as far away as Florida and Quebec.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of the entities have registered as 501(c)3 charities, but others remain completely informal. Anyone is allowed to use the name as long as they're providing burritos and not making any money off the service. \"From what I understand, we have one of the only burrito projects that runs four days a week,\" says Rai Doty, a coordinator in Salt Lake City. \"Four days a week, we feed 200 to 500 people a night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p10404041-fb20eab30fc96338acf461f080b041ded020e027-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some Burrito Project volunteers, including organizer Michael Walters, show up early to cook the rice and beans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Burrito Project volunteers, including organizer Michael Walters, show up early to cook the rice and beans. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The groups rely on a mix of donated food and sponsorships. In San Francisco, different companies pay the bills each month, helping out with both funding and manpower. For the anniversary event, 15 people showed up from \u003ca href=\"https://www.redbubble.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9LPYBRDSARIsAHL7J5kmZ-pwn8kGompRqKczfpFhHZQkMS4nYetHaCq8OijYHgZYdgMVHLMaAoiiEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redbubble\u003c/a>, a digital art marketplace. \"It's important to show our employees the community we live in and take accountability for it,\" says Michael Kyle, a manager with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd on that Monday was mostly young and white, but several other racial and ethnic groups were represented, with at least one grandmother helping out. For some, this effort represents just one stop along their personal charity journeys, which also include efforts such as working at animal shelters or churches. But for others, this was a quick and painless way to give back, requiring less effort or time commitment than volunteering at some of the more established nonprofits in town. Those who walked in saying they don't normally cook found that they could certainly chop and scoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several participants said they showed up because the Burrito Project simply sounds like a fun charity. In San Francisco, one of the world's great foodie capitals, the humble burrito retains an outsized place in the culinary imagination, with competing burrito palaces in the Mission District drawing long lines day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Burritos hit my self-interest,\" says retired volunteer Calvin Pon. \"When I saw an article about it, I thought, 'Burritos? I love burritos!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p1040442-1-f192bd814a3e0aecb444ec4ad2f32b0d6c1503fd-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Once the assembly line got going, a mix of regular and newbie volunteers were able to put together hundreds of burritos in an hour.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the assembly line got going, a mix of regular and newbie volunteers were able to put together hundreds of burritos in an hour. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once people learn about the ongoing event through news accounts or social media, there tends to be a ripple effect — participants bring friends along the next time around. The organizers say they're trying to make the event fun and welcoming, asking everyone to introduce themselves and providing kombucha and cake to celebrate their anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Winterholter used to routinely come to help. When Winterholter moved to Denver for a job, he brought the idea with him. During their first outing last month, they served 279 burritos to the homeless. His new employer, the restaurant group Bonanno Concepts, is donating all the ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out here, they're really hungry, because they don't have all the services they do in San Francisco,\" Winterholter says. \"When we showed up, they were literally running to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, volunteers from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and other cyclists go wherever the homeless might be found, carrying homemade Google maps that display encampment areas the group has come across over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each cyclist stuffs a bag with 20 or 30 burritos. The general rule is one per customer, but no one who asks for a second is refused. Ingredients may vary depending on donations, but the burritos are kept vegan so they won't go bad if they're saved for a day or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A few people want meat, but they're a vocal minority,\" says Nic Fontaine, who regularly helps hand them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soup kitchen that allows the Burrito Project to use its kitchen is located on the edge of the Mission District, which is ground zero for gentrification pressures in San Francisco. It's still a melting pot of Mexican fruit markets, meditative cafes and radical-left bookshops, but a million-dollar apartment in the neighborhood would now be considered a steal. The Mission has become a prime disembarkation point for the controversial private buses that drop off employees coming home from work at companies such as Google, Facebook and Genentech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p1040410-3211765d5a640f1c44b826cafdef62aa1ad431b9-800x600.jpg\" alt='As part of the prep, Wayne Cheung (left), Wendy Dwyer and Michael Kyle separate tortillas. \"I find it very gratifying,\" says Cheung, who started volunteering in February. \"I might do this as long as the project lasts.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of the prep, Wayne Cheung (left), Wendy Dwyer and Michael Kyle separate tortillas. \"I find it very gratifying,\" says Cheung, who started volunteering in February. \"I might do this as long as the project lasts.\" \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are visible homeless people all over the Mission, out on the streets and under the elevated sections of Highway 101 that ring a portion of the neighborhood. Several of the volunteers who showed up at the most recent event spoke openly about wanting to do something to assuage the sense of guilt that comes from thriving in tech or finance in a boom city where so many are left with nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burrito Project encourages volunteers not just to hand out food, but to stop and interact with individuals who are often neglected or avoided. \"Obviously, my daughter sees a lot of homeless people,\" says Rahul Young, a Mission resident who brought Ione, his 7-year-old daughter, to participate. \"This is a way of helping her understand all parts of the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one is under the illusion that handing out an occasional burrito is going to solve anyone's problems. Some Burrito Project outposts try to do more than occasionally feed people. During the snowy season in Salt Lake City, the group partners with Warm the Homeless, which distributes blankets, coats and hats. The long-running project in Bakersfield has been adopted by high school and church groups who hand out clothes and shoes when there are donations. Their ninth anniversary event on July 8 will provide a forum for representatives from other local groups that provide housing, health and legal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/p10404221-8658ffc2a83a990dc73b97c21c2310c9408c2dac-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"You can't judge how hungry people living on the streets might be, says Emily Durenberger, pouring sauce when she's not busy orienting new volunteers. It's important not just to feed but interact with people who are too often ignored, she says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can't judge how hungry people living on the streets might be, says Emily Durenberger, pouring sauce when she's not busy orienting new volunteers. It's important not just to feed but interact with people who are too often ignored, she says. \u003ccite>(Alan Greenblatt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At its most recent event, the San Francisco Burrito Project happened to have donated chips and coconut water to give away, along with hygiene kits put together by volunteer Anna Hurst and her friends as a birthday project. \"I don't know what the solution is,\" she says, \"but at least this gives them something to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients seemed to appreciate it. Al Lewis has been living on the streets for nearly 30 years, the consequence of a long-ago addiction to crack cocaine, although he says he's been clean for a couple of years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a regular client at the soup kitchen where the San Francisco Burrito Project is located. The occasional burrito makes a nice break, Lewis says, from the potato soup, barley and oatmeal he's usually served there. \"I prefer burritos,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+Grass-Roots+Effort+To+Feed+The+Poor+Is+Growing%2C+Burrito+By+Burrito&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11671927/a-grass-roots-effort-to-feed-the-poor-is-growing-burrito-by-burrito","authors":["byline_news_11671927"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_333","news_20305","news_21161","news_38","news_21221"],"featImg":"news_11671928","label":"source_news_11671927"},"news_11668876":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11668876","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11668876","score":null,"sort":[1526670496000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"house-votes-down-farm-bill-over-food-stamp-immigration-disputes","title":"House Votes Down Farm Bill Over Food Stamp, Immigration Disputes","publishDate":1526670496,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives voted down the so-called farm bill Friday on a \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll205.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">213-198 vote\u003c/a>. The bill's failure proved a high-stakes embarrassment to GOP leadership, which spent days attempting to wrangle enough votes for the massive piece of legislation setting agriculture and food policy, with a price tag of $857 billion over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, all Democrats voted against the measure. They were also joined by 30 Republicans, many of them members of the House Freedom Caucus, who voted \"no\" after failing to get concessions on spending and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/conservative-bill-immigration-daca-negotiations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future vote on immigration\u003c/a> in exchange for their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the big picture, the farm bill would have continued subsidies for farmers. But a key sticking point in the measure, particularly for Democrats, was proposed changes to food stamps -- officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP -- which helps \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 million Americans, \u003c/a>including one in 10 Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi characterized the bill as \"cruel\" and \"destructive,\" and summed up her party's stiff opposition just two hours before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/997488952369143808\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 \u003c/a>proposed to shift billions of dollars to employment and training programs, while substantially increasing the number of people who would need to prove they are working or enrolled in job training to get the monthly nutrition benefits, which average $126 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opponents argued the changes would lead to more low-income Americans going hungry, supporters said they would help move people out of poverty and strengthen the country's workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Food stamps should be for the neediest in our community,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a> (R-Turlock), a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a>, who voted for the farm bill in committee last month. \"If you're able-bodied and you are work-capable, we want to make sure you find a job and you get the training that you need to lift yourself out of poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, adults ages 18 to 49 who don't have dependents or disabilities must prove they are working or in job training at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits for more than three months. The bill would have substantially expanded the requirement to include adults up to age 59 and parents with children older than age 5. Recipients would have had to show they were meeting the new rules on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham represents a portion of the Central Valley, a region where SNAP, called\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CalFresh\u003c/a> in California, helps reduce more poverty than elsewhere in the state, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/calfresh-cuts-poverty-congressional-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> by the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham acknowledged the potential difficulty for low-income Californians who are already struggling to get by. But he said his own family was able to get off the food aid when he was growing up to achieve greater financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, when my parents were on food stamps it was a challenging situation where my mom needed to go back out and get new training to be able to get a new job,\" Denham said. \"It's very difficult, I get it. But I also understand that you are able to improve your life by working and actually having a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending on SNAP and other nutrition programs makes up the largest portion of the farm bill's cost, about 76 percent. Last year, the federal government spent $68 billion on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the failed bill, about 1.2 million people would have stopped receiving SNAP benefits as a result of the tighter work requirements in 2028, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/6-takeaways-from-cbo-estimate-of-house-agriculture-committee-snap-proposals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The majority of them would have been parents with older kids -- although children receiving the benefit would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food banks, that spelled bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any cuts to SNAP guarantee that we will see an increase of individuals, families in our food pantry lines. And we are not prepared to meet that need,\" said Natalie Caples, chief operations officer at\u003ca href=\"http://www.communityfoodbank.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Food Bank\u003c/a>, which serves Fresno and four other counties in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caples said that for every 12 meals that SNAP provides, food banks in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.feedingamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Feeding America\u003c/a> network make up just one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no way,\" she said. \"We don't have the resources to make up those additional meals that SNAP currently provides in our service area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11668977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait their turn to get bags of fresh vegetables, bread and other staples at a food pantry volunteers set up by a park in Mendota, California, on May 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a food pantry that volunteers set up in a parking lot in\u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mendota\u003c/a>, a small city surrounded by agricultural fields, Maria Escobar awaited her turn to reach for a Community Food Bank cardboard box with cabbage and broccoli, bread, a chicken and other staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar, 30, said she sometimes supplements her household's CalFresh benefits with additional food from the pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With my kids, it's really difficult, because food is so expensive,\" Escobar said. She has three kids at home, ages 8, 10 and 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar is a farmworker, but the jobs are seasonal. As a single parent, she said it would have been difficult to meet the proposed requirements to avoid a drop in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what I would do,\" Escobar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno City College\u003c/a> student Frederick Johnson, the $190 he receives monthly in CalFresh benefits is one of the few things he can currently count on in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 22, has struggled with homelessness. But he still goes to school full time and works a minimum-wage job at the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't come from the best family. I come from a bad neighborhood as well. So I know I got to work twice as hard to be on everybody else's level,\" said Johnson, a biochemistry major who dreams of working in a lab as a medical researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11668975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick Johnson, 22, takes a break from his studies by the library at Fresno City College. Johnson wants to become a medical researcher, and says his SNAP benefits help him stay in school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, California has a waiver that exempts SNAP recipients like Johnson from having to prove they are working 20 hours per week. But that waiver expires this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to find more work hours, to keep more than one month of CalFresh benefits at a time, would have made it harder for him to stay in school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel like they should add pressure to people on CalFresh,\" Johnson said of lawmakers backing the farm bill. \"I feel like they should sincerely just help them and give them more time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Brian Naylor and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal food aid programs would have gotten more money for work training programs but would have tightened eligibility by requiring more recipients to work.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1526679647,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1152},"headData":{"title":"House Votes Down Farm Bill Over Food Stamp, Immigration Disputes | KQED","description":"Federal food aid programs would have gotten more money for work training programs but would have tightened eligibility by requiring more recipients to work.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11668876 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11668876","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/18/house-votes-down-farm-bill-over-food-stamp-immigration-disputes/","disqusTitle":"House Votes Down Farm Bill Over Food Stamp, Immigration Disputes","path":"/news/11668876/house-votes-down-farm-bill-over-food-stamp-immigration-disputes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives voted down the so-called farm bill Friday on a \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll205.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">213-198 vote\u003c/a>. The bill's failure proved a high-stakes embarrassment to GOP leadership, which spent days attempting to wrangle enough votes for the massive piece of legislation setting agriculture and food policy, with a price tag of $857 billion over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, all Democrats voted against the measure. They were also joined by 30 Republicans, many of them members of the House Freedom Caucus, who voted \"no\" after failing to get concessions on spending and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/conservative-bill-immigration-daca-negotiations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future vote on immigration\u003c/a> in exchange for their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the big picture, the farm bill would have continued subsidies for farmers. But a key sticking point in the measure, particularly for Democrats, was proposed changes to food stamps -- officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP -- which helps \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 million Americans, \u003c/a>including one in 10 Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi characterized the bill as \"cruel\" and \"destructive,\" and summed up her party's stiff opposition just two hours before the vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"997488952369143808"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 \u003c/a>proposed to shift billions of dollars to employment and training programs, while substantially increasing the number of people who would need to prove they are working or enrolled in job training to get the monthly nutrition benefits, which average $126 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opponents argued the changes would lead to more low-income Americans going hungry, supporters said they would help move people out of poverty and strengthen the country's workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Food stamps should be for the neediest in our community,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a> (R-Turlock), a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a>, who voted for the farm bill in committee last month. \"If you're able-bodied and you are work-capable, we want to make sure you find a job and you get the training that you need to lift yourself out of poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, adults ages 18 to 49 who don't have dependents or disabilities must prove they are working or in job training at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits for more than three months. The bill would have substantially expanded the requirement to include adults up to age 59 and parents with children older than age 5. Recipients would have had to show they were meeting the new rules on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham represents a portion of the Central Valley, a region where SNAP, called\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CalFresh\u003c/a> in California, helps reduce more poverty than elsewhere in the state, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/calfresh-cuts-poverty-congressional-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> by the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham acknowledged the potential difficulty for low-income Californians who are already struggling to get by. But he said his own family was able to get off the food aid when he was growing up to achieve greater financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, when my parents were on food stamps it was a challenging situation where my mom needed to go back out and get new training to be able to get a new job,\" Denham said. \"It's very difficult, I get it. But I also understand that you are able to improve your life by working and actually having a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending on SNAP and other nutrition programs makes up the largest portion of the farm bill's cost, about 76 percent. Last year, the federal government spent $68 billion on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the failed bill, about 1.2 million people would have stopped receiving SNAP benefits as a result of the tighter work requirements in 2028, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/6-takeaways-from-cbo-estimate-of-house-agriculture-committee-snap-proposals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The majority of them would have been parents with older kids -- although children receiving the benefit would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food banks, that spelled bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any cuts to SNAP guarantee that we will see an increase of individuals, families in our food pantry lines. And we are not prepared to meet that need,\" said Natalie Caples, chief operations officer at\u003ca href=\"http://www.communityfoodbank.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Food Bank\u003c/a>, which serves Fresno and four other counties in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caples said that for every 12 meals that SNAP provides, food banks in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.feedingamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Feeding America\u003c/a> network make up just one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no way,\" she said. \"We don't have the resources to make up those additional meals that SNAP currently provides in our service area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11668977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait their turn to get bags of fresh vegetables, bread and other staples at a food pantry volunteers set up by a park in Mendota, California, on May 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a food pantry that volunteers set up in a parking lot in\u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mendota\u003c/a>, a small city surrounded by agricultural fields, Maria Escobar awaited her turn to reach for a Community Food Bank cardboard box with cabbage and broccoli, bread, a chicken and other staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar, 30, said she sometimes supplements her household's CalFresh benefits with additional food from the pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With my kids, it's really difficult, because food is so expensive,\" Escobar said. She has three kids at home, ages 8, 10 and 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar is a farmworker, but the jobs are seasonal. As a single parent, she said it would have been difficult to meet the proposed requirements to avoid a drop in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what I would do,\" Escobar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno City College\u003c/a> student Frederick Johnson, the $190 he receives monthly in CalFresh benefits is one of the few things he can currently count on in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 22, has struggled with homelessness. But he still goes to school full time and works a minimum-wage job at the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't come from the best family. I come from a bad neighborhood as well. So I know I got to work twice as hard to be on everybody else's level,\" said Johnson, a biochemistry major who dreams of working in a lab as a medical researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11668975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick Johnson, 22, takes a break from his studies by the library at Fresno City College. Johnson wants to become a medical researcher, and says his SNAP benefits help him stay in school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, California has a waiver that exempts SNAP recipients like Johnson from having to prove they are working 20 hours per week. But that waiver expires this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to find more work hours, to keep more than one month of CalFresh benefits at a time, would have made it harder for him to stay in school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel like they should add pressure to people on CalFresh,\" Johnson said of lawmakers backing the farm bill. \"I feel like they should sincerely just help them and give them more time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Brian Naylor and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11668876/house-votes-down-farm-bill-over-food-stamp-immigration-disputes","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_22578","news_311","news_20149","news_21218","news_22264","news_19994","news_21161","news_4874","news_1585","news_386","news_22384","news_387"],"featImg":"news_11668976","label":"news_72"},"news_11649813":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11649813","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11649813","score":null,"sort":[1518631209000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"green-cards-citizenship-could-be-harder-to-get-for-immigrants-who-use-public-benefits","title":"Green Cards, Citizenship Could Be Harder to Get for Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits","publishDate":1518631209,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Immigrants who sign up for a broad range of taxpayer-funded services, including food aid or subsidized preschool, could face a tougher road to legal residency, and eventually U.S. citizenship, under a new proposed guideline from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, immigration officials can label an immigrant as likely to become a \"public charge\" if they depend on the government for long-term cash assistance or care. That can hurt their eligibility to become permanent residents, also known as green card holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10188201/DRAFT_NPRM_public_charge.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft document\u003c/a> from the Department of Homeland Security would expand those criteria to include immigrants who use food assistance like \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalFresh\u003c/a> or preschool programs like Head Start -- even if the beneficiaries are their children born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"h86VAC6aXL9B7lgxTmKmpdmBd1DgXrlV\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that an alien applying for admission or adjustment of status is likely to become a public charge at any time, the alien is inadmissible,\" says the DHS document. An immigrant's health, age, financial assets and education are additional factors considered in that test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/2/8/16993172/trump-regulation-immigrants-benefits-public-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revisions\u003c/a> could be felt significantly in California, where half of all children under age 18 have at least one parent who is an immigrant, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS did not return KQED's requests for comment. But a spokesman for the agency quoted by the news agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-services-exclusive/exclusive-trump-administration-may-target-immigrants-who-use-food-aid-other-benefits-idUSKBN1FS2ZK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters\u003c/a> said the agency seeks to \"be good stewards of taxpayer funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are already permanent residents or who receive the public benefits before the draft guidelines become effective would not be impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's just cruel to make people have to make that choice that they're going to provide for their families or adjust their status to a lawful residency here. And it makes absolutely no sense when you think of how these programs help people get on their feet and able to provide for their families.'\u003ccite>Alvaro Huerta,\u003cbr>\nAttorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Immigration Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the public programs that officials would consider under the proposed guidelines include the \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip/childrens-health-insurance-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children's Health Insurance Program\u003c/a> (CHIP), \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/women-infants-and-children-wic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children\u003c/a> (WIC) and housing vouchers through \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 8\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates say they will fight the proposed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just cruel to make people have to make that choice that they're going to provide for their families or adjust their status to a lawful residency here,\" said Alvaro Huerta, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Immigration Law Center\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. \"And it makes absolutely no sense when you think of how these programs help people get on their feet and able to provide for their families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to the public charge immigration test would require public comment and take months to be approved, according to Huerta and other observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many immigrants who are eligible for tax-funded benefits are already wary of signing up for any kind of government assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have friends and relatives who are afraid it'll affect them in some way when they try to fix their status to become legal residents,\" said Priscilla, a cook in a San Francisco restaurant who declined to use her last name because she lacks work authorization papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration. Shortly after he took office, San Francisco experienced a small dip in the number of households with noncitizens applying for and renewing applications for CalFresh, said Chandra Johnson, communications director with the city's Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency estimates one in four San Franciscans don't make enough money to provide three meals a day for their families or themselves, and officials there worry that more families could go hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please don't walk away from anything that's giving your family support today,\" Johnson said. \"We are really trying to make sure that there isn't fear in our communities based on speculation or leaked documents, and that people are not going without benefits that they are entitled to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added the federal government currently has no access to the agency's data systems.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Deptartment of Homeland Security plan would expand the criteria for what constitutes a \"public charge,” which could hurt immigrants’ eligibility to become permanent residents.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1565714332,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":694},"headData":{"title":"Green Cards, Citizenship Could Be Harder to Get for Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits | KQED","description":"A Deptartment of Homeland Security plan would expand the criteria for what constitutes a "public charge,” which could hurt immigrants’ eligibility to become permanent residents.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11649813 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11649813","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/14/green-cards-citizenship-could-be-harder-to-get-for-immigrants-who-use-public-benefits/","disqusTitle":"Green Cards, Citizenship Could Be Harder to Get for Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/02/ImmigrationLimitsJhabvalaRomero180212.mp3","audioTrackLength":144,"path":"/news/11649813/green-cards-citizenship-could-be-harder-to-get-for-immigrants-who-use-public-benefits","audioDuration":155000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Immigrants who sign up for a broad range of taxpayer-funded services, including food aid or subsidized preschool, could face a tougher road to legal residency, and eventually U.S. citizenship, under a new proposed guideline from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, immigration officials can label an immigrant as likely to become a \"public charge\" if they depend on the government for long-term cash assistance or care. That can hurt their eligibility to become permanent residents, also known as green card holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10188201/DRAFT_NPRM_public_charge.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft document\u003c/a> from the Department of Homeland Security would expand those criteria to include immigrants who use food assistance like \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalFresh\u003c/a> or preschool programs like Head Start -- even if the beneficiaries are their children born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that an alien applying for admission or adjustment of status is likely to become a public charge at any time, the alien is inadmissible,\" says the DHS document. An immigrant's health, age, financial assets and education are additional factors considered in that test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/2/8/16993172/trump-regulation-immigrants-benefits-public-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revisions\u003c/a> could be felt significantly in California, where half of all children under age 18 have at least one parent who is an immigrant, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS did not return KQED's requests for comment. But a spokesman for the agency quoted by the news agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-services-exclusive/exclusive-trump-administration-may-target-immigrants-who-use-food-aid-other-benefits-idUSKBN1FS2ZK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters\u003c/a> said the agency seeks to \"be good stewards of taxpayer funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are already permanent residents or who receive the public benefits before the draft guidelines become effective would not be impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's just cruel to make people have to make that choice that they're going to provide for their families or adjust their status to a lawful residency here. And it makes absolutely no sense when you think of how these programs help people get on their feet and able to provide for their families.'\u003ccite>Alvaro Huerta,\u003cbr>\nAttorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Immigration Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the public programs that officials would consider under the proposed guidelines include the \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip/childrens-health-insurance-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children's Health Insurance Program\u003c/a> (CHIP), \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/women-infants-and-children-wic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children\u003c/a> (WIC) and housing vouchers through \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 8\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates say they will fight the proposed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just cruel to make people have to make that choice that they're going to provide for their families or adjust their status to a lawful residency here,\" said Alvaro Huerta, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Immigration Law Center\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. \"And it makes absolutely no sense when you think of how these programs help people get on their feet and able to provide for their families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to the public charge immigration test would require public comment and take months to be approved, according to Huerta and other observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many immigrants who are eligible for tax-funded benefits are already wary of signing up for any kind of government assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have friends and relatives who are afraid it'll affect them in some way when they try to fix their status to become legal residents,\" said Priscilla, a cook in a San Francisco restaurant who declined to use her last name because she lacks work authorization papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration. Shortly after he took office, San Francisco experienced a small dip in the number of households with noncitizens applying for and renewing applications for CalFresh, said Chandra Johnson, communications director with the city's Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency estimates one in four San Franciscans don't make enough money to provide three meals a day for their families or themselves, and officials there worry that more families could go hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please don't walk away from anything that's giving your family support today,\" Johnson said. \"We are really trying to make sure that there isn't fear in our communities based on speculation or leaked documents, and that people are not going without benefits that they are entitled to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added the federal government currently has no access to the agency's data systems.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11649813/green-cards-citizenship-could-be-harder-to-get-for-immigrants-who-use-public-benefits","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22578","news_1323","news_21602","news_20829","news_21161","news_24303","news_24494","news_17286","news_17041","news_22226"],"featImg":"news_11649979","label":"news_72"},"news_11616573":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11616573","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11616573","score":null,"sort":[1505518324000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-isolated-trinity-county-residents-this-man-is-their-food-lifeline","title":"In Isolated Trinity County, This Man Is a Food Lifeline","publishDate":1505518324,"format":"audio","headTitle":"California Foodways | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Trinity County is one of those places that doesn’t get in the news much, unless it’s wildfire season like it is right now. It's a beautiful, remote, rural part of northern California. It's also one of the state's most food insecure places, where many people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I decided to travel to Trinity, to meet one man who helps feed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has barely come up in the tiny town of Douglas City, and three men are almost done packing a couple of trucks with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re loaded to the gills,” says Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank. He points to produce like cabbage, white onions and sweet potatoes, along with packaged and canned foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England’s the director of the Trinity County Food Bank. I hop into the cab of a 20-year-old truck with a rattling refrigeration unit, joining England as he begins his monthly food delivery run to the county's hungriest and most isolated residents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He'll drive 230 miles today, 650 miles by the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, delivers items in remote Zenia, California. The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617287\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-960x702.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, delivers items in remote Zenia, California. The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too sharp a turn can upend the pallets of food he’s carefully packed for today’s 10-and-a-half-hour drive. It's over 100 degrees, and there’s no air conditioning in the cab. Out the windshield I see vehicles that have fallen off the side of the road, and thickly forested mountains on one jagged ridge after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was just flattened out completely, with the mountains and everything else, it would be the size of Texas,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Without the food bank, you just go without'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We drop into a valley, to the former mill town of Hayfork. After a couple stops at senior centers, we come to the Solid Rock Church, where more than 50 people line up for prepared foods, produce, and special boxes for seniors. England cobbles together this food from a spider's web of local, state and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresia Kirkland’s here volunteering, but she also collects free food which she often combines in casseroles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the food bank, you just go without,” she tells me. “I’m on Social Security, and after you pay all your bills, if you have an emergency -- if you have a flat tire or anything that needs to be taken care of -- you need to wait til the next month. By the fourth or fifth of the month, I’m broke. Can’t go nowhere, can’t socialize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes for a long month. A long, long month,” chimes in Glenda Raines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers Christen Hutchason and Teresia Kirkland hand out food to more than 50 people at Solid Rock Church in the former mill town of Hayfork.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers Christen Hutchason and Teresia Kirkland hand out food to more than 50 people at Solid Rock Church in the former mill town of Hayfork. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both of these women say they used to supplement their budgets by taking items to a recycling center in Hayfork, but that’s closed now. Raines says, until recently, she and her husband were homeless, camping out by the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend let us stay in a garage made into a little cabin. I don’t know how long that’s going to last. I’m still considered homeless.” She’s happy, at least, to be off the creek and out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says she prepares the food she receives on a little propane stove. Her husband Gary approaches me to say he’s frustrated that there’s not more senior housing, and that a glut of marijuana growers coming into Hayfork are jacking up rents. He says he worked in the Hayfork sawmill for 17 years when it was still open. When he broke his back, he retired. Now he gets just over $800 a month in Social Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush. But you can't eat marijuana.'\u003ccite>Sue Corrigan,\u003cbr>\n farmers market manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Last month I got a $180 ticket for being homeless in the National Forest. I didn’t even know that was the law,\" he says, with a slightly bitter laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s grateful for the food he gets here each month. “You get a can of this, a can of that. It’s better than nothing, but we should get more. I mean, this is America. Come on. We should come first. If we can help other countries, why can’t we help ourselves?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 10 California counties actually have higher poverty than Trinity County, but Trinity is one of the state’s most food insecure places. To find out why, I head to what looks like the center of food abundance in Trinity County: the farmers market in Weaverville. Market manager Sue Corrigan is shopping for zucchini, tomatillos for salsa and onions her husband will make into onion rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she points to one vendor selling tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, Corrigan tells me something surprising, “We don’t have a lot of farmers in Trinity. This farmer is our only farmer in the Weaverville area\" -- the only local of about 10 farmers selling produce here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed to bring farmers in to bump our food source up,” Corrigan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-960x693.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riding with Jeff England, I’ve already seen that most of the land here is too mountainous to grow much produce. Making matters worse, Corrigan says, years ago, much of the potential farmland was taken out of commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family had farmland here dating back to the 1830s. In the 1950s, Corrigan’s dad went away to college to study agriculture, but had to change his major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government was taking our land,” she says, to build the Trinity Dam, part of the Central Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our last areas that was open enough to do farming, and they buried it with a lake,” she says, wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrigan says it’s all about priorities in Trinity County. “We’ve had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush which, is called the 'green rush.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t eat marijuana, she says. \"The focus has been on other industries and not a food sustainable industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Braving Risky Roads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One more explanation for Trinity’s food insecurity? Isolation. I see this first hand as Jeff England approaches his most remote food bank drop-off spot. He maneuvers around most of the potholes on these bumpy, poorly maintained roads. Last year’s winter storms even blocked one of his routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was only one road you couldn’t get through,” he says. “Of course it was at about 5,000 feet and the snow was horrendous and people got stuck. It took me two months to get there and I brought two months’ worth of food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s saying this like it was nothing, but England drove this old truck that doesn’t have four-wheel drive in the snow, on a closed road. State highway workers told him if he got stuck, he was on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I have to go.' I slipped, lost traction, gained traction,” he remembers. “I just knew they needed the food so I decided to take the chance, and I made it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff England unloads boxes at his last stop, Ruth Lake. Site supervisor Sandy Rasche says 45 families come to get food. The local population hovers around 200.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-960x703.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff England unloads boxes at his last stop, Ruth Lake. Site supervisor Sandy Rasche says 45 families come to get food. The local population hovers around 200. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That takes a lot of guts,” says Lauren Turner. She’s come to the food drop-off at the volunteer fire department in Zenia, a tiny town on the border of Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming up the back of the mountain, they call it Refrigerator Alley for a reason,” she says. “It gets pretty slick. So, we’re grateful. It’s not easy up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for doing some computer work, Turner and her partner live on a friend’s ranch nearby. But where do they go to get groceries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually it’s 100 miles in any direction from here to a large town,” she says. That’s more than a two-hour drive, one-way, to Eureka or Redding. They only do that once a month. In between, they rely on the food bank delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep the canned good for times when we can’t get off the hill, and the fresh food, I get imaginative,” she says. “I like to take the veggies and cook them in fruit juice and then I like to put fish on top of them the last 15-20 minutes. Sometime we get frozen fish so I make a lot of one-pot meals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A lot of people don’t know what it is to be hungry. ... I'm so happy to be able to turn the table and be able to help people that might have been in my shoes before.'\u003ccite>Jeff England\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>England says he and his team have more than doubled the amount of food they’re bringing into Trinity County in the last year. The food bank and \u003ca href=\"https://www.trinitycountyfoodbank.com/\">Trinity County Food Assistance\u003c/a> deliver one bag or box of food to 2,500 households each month. That’s 20 percent of the county. And they could do more, but their antiquated refrigerator and freezer are so small, sometimes they have to decline donations of perishable food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we probably have the lowest operating budget in the state. Our operating budget’s about $41,000 a year.” He and his wife clean summer vacation homes to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says the community here is incredibly supportive, but some people have complained that the food bank just enables drug addicted or homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t judge people, and those druggies have kids. The kids might not get food normally,” England says, but if the food bank provides, they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, if you’re hungry, you’re hungry,\" he says. \"I don’t care who you are. You’re black, white, Indian, Mexican, fat, skinny, or from out of the county. If you’re hungry, you’re hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8nforG41Utf0dXCPVOG0DlYyxvizE9qb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of judgement, it comes from personal experience. England says he’s been out of work before, \"and I’ve struggled in the past, a long time ago, with some addiction problems. It just felt so good to be able to go to a place when you’re hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers that first meal in a soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was in a church. It was spaghetti, garlic bread and a salad,” he recalls, and they sent him and others home with cans of soup and chili for additional meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t know what it is to be hungry,” he explains, “but if you’ve ever been hungry, it’s a horrible feeling. You’re weak. You can’t do anything. You don’t have any ambitions. I’m so happy to be able to turn the table and be able to help people that might have been in my shoes before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, just look at the logo of the food bank, a person on a pedestal, reaching down helping someone else up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ariel Plotnick contributed additional reporting and research for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food & Environment Reporting network\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a non-profit, investigative news organization. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's one of California’s most food insecure places, where many people don’t know where their next meal is coming from.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1505683188,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":2085},"headData":{"title":"In Isolated Trinity County, This Man Is a Food Lifeline | KQED","description":"It's one of California’s most food insecure places, where many people don’t know where their next meal is coming from.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11616573 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11616573","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/15/for-isolated-trinity-county-residents-this-man-is-their-food-lifeline/","disqusTitle":"In Isolated Trinity County, This Man Is a Food Lifeline","sourceUrl":"californiafoodways.com","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/09/TCRPM20170915seg1TrinityCountyFood.mp3","path":"/news/11616573/for-isolated-trinity-county-residents-this-man-is-their-food-lifeline","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Trinity County is one of those places that doesn’t get in the news much, unless it’s wildfire season like it is right now. It's a beautiful, remote, rural part of northern California. It's also one of the state's most food insecure places, where many people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I decided to travel to Trinity, to meet one man who helps feed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has barely come up in the tiny town of Douglas City, and three men are almost done packing a couple of trucks with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re loaded to the gills,” says Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank. He points to produce like cabbage, white onions and sweet potatoes, along with packaged and canned foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England’s the director of the Trinity County Food Bank. I hop into the cab of a 20-year-old truck with a rattling refrigeration unit, joining England as he begins his monthly food delivery run to the county's hungriest and most isolated residents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He'll drive 230 miles today, 650 miles by the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, delivers items in remote Zenia, California. The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617287\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-960x702.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, delivers items in remote Zenia, California. The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too sharp a turn can upend the pallets of food he’s carefully packed for today’s 10-and-a-half-hour drive. It's over 100 degrees, and there’s no air conditioning in the cab. Out the windshield I see vehicles that have fallen off the side of the road, and thickly forested mountains on one jagged ridge after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was just flattened out completely, with the mountains and everything else, it would be the size of Texas,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Without the food bank, you just go without'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We drop into a valley, to the former mill town of Hayfork. After a couple stops at senior centers, we come to the Solid Rock Church, where more than 50 people line up for prepared foods, produce, and special boxes for seniors. England cobbles together this food from a spider's web of local, state and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresia Kirkland’s here volunteering, but she also collects free food which she often combines in casseroles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the food bank, you just go without,” she tells me. “I’m on Social Security, and after you pay all your bills, if you have an emergency -- if you have a flat tire or anything that needs to be taken care of -- you need to wait til the next month. By the fourth or fifth of the month, I’m broke. Can’t go nowhere, can’t socialize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes for a long month. A long, long month,” chimes in Glenda Raines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers Christen Hutchason and Teresia Kirkland hand out food to more than 50 people at Solid Rock Church in the former mill town of Hayfork.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers Christen Hutchason and Teresia Kirkland hand out food to more than 50 people at Solid Rock Church in the former mill town of Hayfork. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both of these women say they used to supplement their budgets by taking items to a recycling center in Hayfork, but that’s closed now. Raines says, until recently, she and her husband were homeless, camping out by the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend let us stay in a garage made into a little cabin. I don’t know how long that’s going to last. I’m still considered homeless.” She’s happy, at least, to be off the creek and out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says she prepares the food she receives on a little propane stove. Her husband Gary approaches me to say he’s frustrated that there’s not more senior housing, and that a glut of marijuana growers coming into Hayfork are jacking up rents. He says he worked in the Hayfork sawmill for 17 years when it was still open. When he broke his back, he retired. Now he gets just over $800 a month in Social Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush. But you can't eat marijuana.'\u003ccite>Sue Corrigan,\u003cbr>\n farmers market manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Last month I got a $180 ticket for being homeless in the National Forest. I didn’t even know that was the law,\" he says, with a slightly bitter laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s grateful for the food he gets here each month. “You get a can of this, a can of that. It’s better than nothing, but we should get more. I mean, this is America. Come on. We should come first. If we can help other countries, why can’t we help ourselves?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 10 California counties actually have higher poverty than Trinity County, but Trinity is one of the state’s most food insecure places. To find out why, I head to what looks like the center of food abundance in Trinity County: the farmers market in Weaverville. Market manager Sue Corrigan is shopping for zucchini, tomatillos for salsa and onions her husband will make into onion rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she points to one vendor selling tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, Corrigan tells me something surprising, “We don’t have a lot of farmers in Trinity. This farmer is our only farmer in the Weaverville area\" -- the only local of about 10 farmers selling produce here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed to bring farmers in to bump our food source up,” Corrigan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-960x693.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riding with Jeff England, I’ve already seen that most of the land here is too mountainous to grow much produce. Making matters worse, Corrigan says, years ago, much of the potential farmland was taken out of commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family had farmland here dating back to the 1830s. In the 1950s, Corrigan’s dad went away to college to study agriculture, but had to change his major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government was taking our land,” she says, to build the Trinity Dam, part of the Central Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our last areas that was open enough to do farming, and they buried it with a lake,” she says, wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrigan says it’s all about priorities in Trinity County. “We’ve had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush which, is called the 'green rush.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t eat marijuana, she says. \"The focus has been on other industries and not a food sustainable industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Braving Risky Roads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One more explanation for Trinity’s food insecurity? Isolation. I see this first hand as Jeff England approaches his most remote food bank drop-off spot. He maneuvers around most of the potholes on these bumpy, poorly maintained roads. Last year’s winter storms even blocked one of his routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was only one road you couldn’t get through,” he says. “Of course it was at about 5,000 feet and the snow was horrendous and people got stuck. It took me two months to get there and I brought two months’ worth of food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s saying this like it was nothing, but England drove this old truck that doesn’t have four-wheel drive in the snow, on a closed road. State highway workers told him if he got stuck, he was on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I have to go.' I slipped, lost traction, gained traction,” he remembers. “I just knew they needed the food so I decided to take the chance, and I made it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff England unloads boxes at his last stop, Ruth Lake. Site supervisor Sandy Rasche says 45 families come to get food. The local population hovers around 200.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-960x703.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff England unloads boxes at his last stop, Ruth Lake. Site supervisor Sandy Rasche says 45 families come to get food. The local population hovers around 200. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That takes a lot of guts,” says Lauren Turner. She’s come to the food drop-off at the volunteer fire department in Zenia, a tiny town on the border of Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming up the back of the mountain, they call it Refrigerator Alley for a reason,” she says. “It gets pretty slick. So, we’re grateful. It’s not easy up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for doing some computer work, Turner and her partner live on a friend’s ranch nearby. But where do they go to get groceries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually it’s 100 miles in any direction from here to a large town,” she says. That’s more than a two-hour drive, one-way, to Eureka or Redding. They only do that once a month. In between, they rely on the food bank delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep the canned good for times when we can’t get off the hill, and the fresh food, I get imaginative,” she says. “I like to take the veggies and cook them in fruit juice and then I like to put fish on top of them the last 15-20 minutes. Sometime we get frozen fish so I make a lot of one-pot meals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A lot of people don’t know what it is to be hungry. ... I'm so happy to be able to turn the table and be able to help people that might have been in my shoes before.'\u003ccite>Jeff England\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>England says he and his team have more than doubled the amount of food they’re bringing into Trinity County in the last year. The food bank and \u003ca href=\"https://www.trinitycountyfoodbank.com/\">Trinity County Food Assistance\u003c/a> deliver one bag or box of food to 2,500 households each month. That’s 20 percent of the county. And they could do more, but their antiquated refrigerator and freezer are so small, sometimes they have to decline donations of perishable food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we probably have the lowest operating budget in the state. Our operating budget’s about $41,000 a year.” He and his wife clean summer vacation homes to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says the community here is incredibly supportive, but some people have complained that the food bank just enables drug addicted or homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t judge people, and those druggies have kids. The kids might not get food normally,” England says, but if the food bank provides, they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, if you’re hungry, you’re hungry,\" he says. \"I don’t care who you are. You’re black, white, Indian, Mexican, fat, skinny, or from out of the county. If you’re hungry, you’re hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of judgement, it comes from personal experience. England says he’s been out of work before, \"and I’ve struggled in the past, a long time ago, with some addiction problems. It just felt so good to be able to go to a place when you’re hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers that first meal in a soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was in a church. It was spaghetti, garlic bread and a salad,” he recalls, and they sent him and others home with cans of soup and chili for additional meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t know what it is to be hungry,” he explains, “but if you’ve ever been hungry, it’s a horrible feeling. You’re weak. You can’t do anything. You don’t have any ambitions. I’m so happy to be able to turn the table and be able to help people that might have been in my shoes before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, just look at the logo of the food bank, a person on a pedestal, reaching down helping someone else up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ariel Plotnick contributed additional reporting and research for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food & Environment Reporting network\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a non-profit, investigative news organization. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11616573/for-isolated-trinity-county-residents-this-man-is-their-food-lifeline","authors":["3229"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_17045"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_21602","news_21161","news_21603","news_17286","news_21601"],"featImg":"news_11617368","label":"news_72"},"news_11514821":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11514821","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11514821","score":null,"sort":[1497974429000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"help-goes-mobile-for-alameda-countys-starving-aging-population","title":"Help Goes Mobile for Alameda County's Starving, Aging Population","publishDate":1497974429,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Going to the mall with my grandmother has been a staple of our \"girls time\" for years. Now our shopping trips include stops at the supermarket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health issues have made it difficult for both her and my grandfather to drive to the grocery store, so sometimes I make the drive from Oakland to Richmond to take them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are fortunate that they have family nearby to help them with their grocery shopping, but not everyone has access to that kind of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland seniors report skipping meals to pay for housing and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We estimate somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of all seniors go hungry on a daily basis in Oakland,” said Bryan Ricks, a member of the Oakland Mayor’s Commission on Aging. He defines a person suffering from hunger as anyone who does not consume at least one meal a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probably the two biggest issues that are facing seniors are housing and hunger,\" Ricks said. \"People have to prioritize where to spend their resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Help Hits the Road\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>To help get food to seniors in need, \u003ca href=\"https://mercybrownbag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercy Brown Bag Program\u003c/a> launched a mobile grocery truck. The truck drives to seniors and, with the push of a button, features shelving that comes down to allow them to shop free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck is expected to feed 2,500 seniors annually, on top of Mercy Brown Bag's existing efforts to feed low-income seniors in Alameda County. A shortage of warehouse space and requests for easier access to food prompted the program to hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept getting all of these phone calls from people who couldn’t make it to our sites who needed delivery and didn’t have anyone in the community to help them,\" said Mercy Brown Bag Program Director Krista Lucchesi. \"We wanted to make sure we could get to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515001\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11515001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grocery truck volunteer and recipient Iraneo Garcia chats with Mercy Brown Bag Program Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence about how to cook lentils.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery truck volunteer and recipient Iraneo Garcia chats with Mercy Brown Bag Program Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence about how to cook lentils. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I met up with Lucchesi and her staff at their pilot site at Eden Issei Terrace, a residential housing community for low-income seniors in Hayward. The truck's shelves hanging from the side are easily accessible for people in wheelchairs. Volunteers are there to help the recipients bag their goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those volunteers -- and recipients -- is 84-year-old Iraneo Garcia. He and his wife waited four years to get into Eden Issei Terrace. Garcia retired 17 years ago from the San Francisco Carpenters Union and said things were fine then. But as housing costs soared, his dollars didn’t stretch as far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money doesn’t even reach a quarter of as far as I used to get,” said Garcia. “We rented one room from family because we could not afford a house or apartment. And we finally got this place, which is very nice. With this food [truck] around it helps us with the rent and our living. It’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched as people lined up to get their fresh fruits, veggies, lentils, rice and potatoes. I even shared with them how I prepare my yams and lentils. The mobile grocery truck allows a space for seniors to socialize too, which is a plus for seniors who face isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people here are happy,\" said volunteer Lilian Mira, who was all smiles. She doesn't drive and also uses the service. \"It will help our little economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11514968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11514968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Health problems, high cost of living and lack of access to transportation make it difficult for seniors to get food. A long-term \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa1b.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Health-Consequences-of-Food-Insecurity-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from 2014 found there's a domino effect to senior hunger. Lack of nutrition -- whether from not eating or choosing cheaper and unhealthier food -- can increase a senior's risk of depression, heart failure, asthma and other ailments. Lucchesi and Ricks said it’s important to act now, especially as senior populations are expected to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11515004 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(l-r) Mercy Brown Bag Program's Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence and Director Krista Lucchesi after supplying free groceries to seniors in Hayward with the truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Mercy Brown Bag Program's Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence and Director Krista Lucchesi after supplying free groceries to seniors in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can visit the \u003ca href=\"https://mercybrownbag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercy Brown Bag Program\u003c/a> website or call them to find out where the truck is rolling to next. Lucchesi said the program needs more volunteers, especially to bring groceries to people who can’t physically make it to the truck when it stops in their area.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Between 20 and 30 percent of all seniors go hungry on a daily basis in Oakland, according to the mayor's Commission on Aging.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1497996039,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":784},"headData":{"title":"Help Goes Mobile for Alameda County's Starving, Aging Population | KQED","description":"Between 20 and 30 percent of all seniors go hungry on a daily basis in Oakland, according to the mayor's Commission on Aging.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11514821 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11514821","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/20/help-goes-mobile-for-alameda-countys-starving-aging-population/","disqusTitle":"Help Goes Mobile for Alameda County's Starving, Aging Population","path":"/news/11514821/help-goes-mobile-for-alameda-countys-starving-aging-population","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Going to the mall with my grandmother has been a staple of our \"girls time\" for years. Now our shopping trips include stops at the supermarket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health issues have made it difficult for both her and my grandfather to drive to the grocery store, so sometimes I make the drive from Oakland to Richmond to take them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are fortunate that they have family nearby to help them with their grocery shopping, but not everyone has access to that kind of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland seniors report skipping meals to pay for housing and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We estimate somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of all seniors go hungry on a daily basis in Oakland,” said Bryan Ricks, a member of the Oakland Mayor’s Commission on Aging. He defines a person suffering from hunger as anyone who does not consume at least one meal a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probably the two biggest issues that are facing seniors are housing and hunger,\" Ricks said. \"People have to prioritize where to spend their resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Help Hits the Road\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>To help get food to seniors in need, \u003ca href=\"https://mercybrownbag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercy Brown Bag Program\u003c/a> launched a mobile grocery truck. The truck drives to seniors and, with the push of a button, features shelving that comes down to allow them to shop free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck is expected to feed 2,500 seniors annually, on top of Mercy Brown Bag's existing efforts to feed low-income seniors in Alameda County. A shortage of warehouse space and requests for easier access to food prompted the program to hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept getting all of these phone calls from people who couldn’t make it to our sites who needed delivery and didn’t have anyone in the community to help them,\" said Mercy Brown Bag Program Director Krista Lucchesi. \"We wanted to make sure we could get to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515001\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11515001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grocery truck volunteer and recipient Iraneo Garcia chats with Mercy Brown Bag Program Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence about how to cook lentils.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1757-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery truck volunteer and recipient Iraneo Garcia chats with Mercy Brown Bag Program Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence about how to cook lentils. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I met up with Lucchesi and her staff at their pilot site at Eden Issei Terrace, a residential housing community for low-income seniors in Hayward. The truck's shelves hanging from the side are easily accessible for people in wheelchairs. Volunteers are there to help the recipients bag their goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those volunteers -- and recipients -- is 84-year-old Iraneo Garcia. He and his wife waited four years to get into Eden Issei Terrace. Garcia retired 17 years ago from the San Francisco Carpenters Union and said things were fine then. But as housing costs soared, his dollars didn’t stretch as far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money doesn’t even reach a quarter of as far as I used to get,” said Garcia. “We rented one room from family because we could not afford a house or apartment. And we finally got this place, which is very nice. With this food [truck] around it helps us with the rent and our living. It’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched as people lined up to get their fresh fruits, veggies, lentils, rice and potatoes. I even shared with them how I prepare my yams and lentils. The mobile grocery truck allows a space for seniors to socialize too, which is a plus for seniors who face isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people here are happy,\" said volunteer Lilian Mira, who was all smiles. She doesn't drive and also uses the service. \"It will help our little economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11514968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11514968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25723_IMG_1996-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crates of fresh fruits and veggies line the inside of the grocery truck for seniors. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Health problems, high cost of living and lack of access to transportation make it difficult for seniors to get food. A long-term \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa1b.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Health-Consequences-of-Food-Insecurity-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from 2014 found there's a domino effect to senior hunger. Lack of nutrition -- whether from not eating or choosing cheaper and unhealthier food -- can increase a senior's risk of depression, heart failure, asthma and other ailments. Lucchesi and Ricks said it’s important to act now, especially as senior populations are expected to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11515004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11515004 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(l-r) Mercy Brown Bag Program's Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence and Director Krista Lucchesi after supplying free groceries to seniors in Hayward with the truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1760-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Mercy Brown Bag Program's Assistant Director Nicole St. Lawrence and Director Krista Lucchesi after supplying free groceries to seniors in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Jenee Darden/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can visit the \u003ca href=\"https://mercybrownbag.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercy Brown Bag Program\u003c/a> website or call them to find out where the truck is rolling to next. Lucchesi said the program needs more volunteers, especially to bring groceries to people who can’t physically make it to the truck when it stops in their area.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11514821/help-goes-mobile-for-alameda-countys-starving-aging-population","authors":["11225"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_260","news_333","news_1037","news_21161","news_18","news_2081"],"featImg":"news_11515003","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. 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