In New York City, food insecurity is on the rise due to the COVID-19 pandemic—by over 44% projects the Food Bank for New York City. That means over 1.6 million New Yorkers.
“We do something called an intake and that’s where we’re asking people that come into our line for example, ‘how many people are in your household?’” said Janis Robinson, the organization’s vice president of institutions and partnerships. “We ask how many adults, how many seniors, how many children, so we get a sense of how many people within that household are being served by our resources.
The city reports emergency food service use during the pandemic continued to increase among Black New Yorkers while every other racial/ethnic group saw decreases by October 2020. Alongside those findings were accessibility issues. The majority of Black New Yorkers polled perceived an increase in food costs at the start of the pandemic, with a sizable minority saying they struggled to access emergency food services.
“There is a tendency for people to say, ‘oh, I’ve got this canned good that I haven’t eaten in five years, I hate to throw it out, I might as well give it to the food bank.’ We’d rather not have the canned goods that are super expired. And that may have a lot of sodium—we really work to provide the kind of food that we want to eat. So we want healthy, nutritious food donated.”
“We don’t take things like Gatorade, or soda—Coca Cola, Pepsi or those items,” said Robinson. “And then we also don’t take pastries. Because we’re trying to get people healthy, nutritious food.
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