The pandemic due to Covid-19 has led to many people becoming unemployed. Many of these people live paycheck-to-paycheck. Therefore, without a job, these people are forced to use their unemployment benefits, if they recieve any or to borrow money in order to fulfill their basic needs like for purchasing food or for paying their water bill. At some point this year, 54 million Americans — including one in four children — may not know where their next meal is coming from. Food insecurity rates are rising in every part of the United States, and will continue to throughout 2020, according to new projections out this week from Feeding America. More than 37 million people were already considered food insecure before COVID-19 arrived in the U.S. and devastated the economy — and that was the lowest it had been since before the Great Recession. With unemployment continuing to rise every week — nearly 39 million people have applied for benefits for the first time just in the last two months — food banks know that need is only going to continue to increase, and is likely to remain high for a long time.
