(1 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alameda, California – 25 April 25
1. Various of Beatriz Cortez shopping for groceries at Alameda Food Bank
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Beatriz Cortez, Alameda Food Bank customer:
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"It’s hard for a retired person to get what you need with food, because you have to also pay for the rent. You have to pay for your medications."
3. Beatriz Cortez shopping for groceries at Alameda Food Bank
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Beatriz Cortez, Alameda Food Bank customer:
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"The government has cut so much stuff all over, it’s becoming a lot more important to have a food bank."
5. Beatriz Cortez shopping for groceries at Alameda Food Bank
6. Christina Santamaria checking out at Alameda Food Bank
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christina Santamaria, Alameda Food Bank customer:
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"Yeah, I usually come every single week, normally, just because it’s hard for us to, you know, pay for everything and then also pay for our bills and then, also, for food. It’s really expensive here."
8. Christina Santamaria packing groceries at car outside Alameda Food Bank
9. People lining up outside Alameda Food Bank
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christina Santamaria, Alameda Food Bank customer:
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"Even people who have full-time jobs, I mean, my husband, he works full- time, he has a quote-unquote good job, but I mean it’s the military and even the military can’t afford things that’s sad, you know."
10. Various of volunteer stocking shelves at Alameda Food Bank
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Christina Santamaria, Alameda Food Bank customer:
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"Obviously we’re in a better situation than some people I know here. They use it for like their actual daily, you know, budget for food sustenance. So the fact that they’re going to cut that, a lot of people could go hungry."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oakland, California – 25 April 2025
12. Various of volunteers packing potatoes at warehouse of Alameda County Community Food Bank
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Regi Young, executive director, Alameda County Community Food Bank:
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"We have a number of our partners seen increases in the number of clients that are coming to their respective pantries. Prior to the pandemic, we were distributing about 30 million pounds of food each year. Right now we’re distributing nearly 60 million pounds of food each year."
14. Various of volunteers packing produce at warehouse of Alameda County Community Food Bank
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alameda, California – 25 April 25
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Teale Harden, executive director, Alameda Food Bank:
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"Even just about a year ago, we were sometimes seeing deliveries that were 30 or 40,000 pounds worth of USDA food. The last couple of deliveries have been more like 10,000 pounds and under, so it’s a really significant drop off that we’re seeing since the impacts of everything that’s happening at a federal level."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oakland, California – 25 April 25
16. Forklift driver moving box of produce in food bank warehouse
STORYLINE:
Food banks typically see the most need during periods of high unemployment and yet the U.S. is facing down a hunger crisis during a relatively resilient labor market. The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture research showed there were one million more food insecure households in 2023 than 2022.
Funding cuts began threatening food availability in March.
Over half of responding food banks told Feeding America they served more neighbors this February than the same month last year.
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