‘Breadlines’ Erupt Across America As Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor”
April 11, 2020
The economy has crashed into a depression, 16.78 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits, and consumer sentiment crashed the most on record. This American horror story has taken only three weeks to play out, the fastest and most severe economic crash in the country’s history, and still, we don’t know the true extent of the damage until the second half of the year.
However, the one thing we do know is that food bank networks across the country have reported unprecedented demand as a hunger crisis unfolds. Here’s our reporting on the evolution of the virus pandemic, has morphed into a financial crash, and now social crisis:
And how do we know food bank networks are becoming “overwhelmed” across the country? Well, citizen journalists have launched their Chinese DJI drones overhead food banks to figure out why there are miles-long traffic jams of hangry people. And it appears that these lines are America’s new breadlines, similar to what was seen nine decades ago in the Great Depression.
“Hundreds of cars” waiting in line at a food bank in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, on March 30.
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Here’s footage from April 2, documenting long lines of cars trying to get into the Feeding South Florida food bank, located in Broward County.
On Thursday, the San Antonio Food Bank, located in San Antonio, Texas, aided about 10,000 households with food.
“It was a rough one today,” said Food Bank president and CEO Eric Cooper after the largest distribution day in the nonprofit’s 40-year history. “We have never executed on as large of demand as we are now.”
Helicopter footage, courtesy of KENS 5 San Antonio News, shows the shocking aerial view of thousands of cars lined up at the food bank, waiting to receive a care pack.
Poster Comment:
I was just up to Good Samaritan Shop and picked up commodities.