Chicago Tribune | Food banks leaner as more in U.S. are hungry

Chicago Tribune | Food banks leaner as more in U.S. are hungry: "Food banks leaner as more in U.S. are hungry

By Michael Martinez, Tribune national correspondent. Tribune correspondent Tim Jones contributed to this report
Published December 26, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- In cities from coast to coast, food bank operators are reporting that food and cash donations are down and the need is up.

In New York, some food pantry shelves are bare, a situation never seen before by 15-year employees. Food donations are off about a million pounds in a city that normally deals with 67 million pounds a year, officials said."