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Ithaca Nonprofits Provide Assistance As Temperatures Drop
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Ithaca’s homeless shelters and food banks prepare are getting ready to serve the community this winter.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/food-banks/)
Ithaca’s homeless shelters and food banks prepare are getting ready to serve the community this winter.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity has increased in the United States. This is particularly true for households with young children. According to Brookings Institute, which has been named “Top Think Tank in the World” every year since 2008, by the end of April, more than 20 percent of households in the United States and 40 percent of households with mothers with children 12 and under were food insecure. These mothers said, “The food we bought just didn’t last and we didn’t have enough money to get more.” The incidence of hardship among children as measured by responses to this question has increased 460 percent. At the same time, farmers are destroying their products.
In an initiative pioneered by six animal sciences students, thousands of eggs from Cornell’s poultry farm, which are currently composted, will be cleaned and delivered to local food shelters to mitigate food insecurity in the area.