Ontario Hunger Report shows more people than ever before – especially first timers – are seeking help from food banks in Ontario. Sudbury Food Bank said it too is facing a higher demand
The annual Feed Ontario Hunger Report was released Thursday and showed there was a 64-per-cent increase in the number of first-time users at Ontario food banks since before the pandemic. Details of the annual report were released in Sudbury at a news conference at the Sudbury Food Bank office on Webbwood Drive.
"While it was initially hoped that rapidly escalating food bank use was the result of an acute set of circumstances related to the pandemic, more than three years later, food bank use has only continued to increase," said the report. With respect to the call for more government support, Stewart said she can only hope the province is receptive.
He commented on the new numbers in the 2002 report — that only 27 per cent of unemployed Ontarians are able to receive federal employment benefits; that two-thirds of people on Ontario social assistance are going to food banks; that 45 per cent of food bank users blame the rising cost of food as a reason to need food bank assistance; that 13 per cent said it was the cost of housing that sent them to the food bank, and; that nine per cent said either low wages or not enough hours at work were...
Also in Sudbury on Thursday, the local branch of the Salvation Army reported there has seen a significant increase in the number of families registering for Christmas assistance.
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