The need for food is at a crisis level

 The Globe did a piece on the amount of food being distributed in Mass. It is disturbing to read the amount of food needed to help people during this pandemic and massive unemployment. I ask my readers to chip in with a donation to a charity you believe in. We have a few in the Ham, Salvation Army, Daniel's Table, Tri County United Way and of coarse there's the Great Boston Food Bank.  Every little bit helps them buy food. When Biden takes office I hope he will direct money to food banks across the country. 

By David Abel Globe Staff

“It’s just a terrible time for a lot of people,” said Catherine D’Amato, president of the Greater Boston Food Bank, the largest hunger-relief organization in New England, which provides food to 190 towns and cities in Eastern Massachusetts. “We’re obviously in a crisis.”

Before the pandemic, the food bank distributed about 1 million pounds of food a week to some 415,000 people. Now, the organization distributes about 2.5 million pounds a week to more than 660,000 people, and that number has been rising steadily.

As many as one in seven people in the state are considered food insecure — about 1 million residents — up from one in 13 people before the pandemic, D’Amato said. Overall, the food-insecurity rate in Massachusetts has increased by 59 percent since March, more than any other state, according to Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.