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Trucks are being loaded up with food and supplies at Feeding Tampa Bay to help those impacted by Hurricane Ian.

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A new report on food insecurity from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found about 13.5 million Americans struggled to put food on the table in 2021.

This month is Hunger Action Month, and Feeding Tampa Bay’s President and CEO, Thomas Mantz, hopes more will use the occasion to join the fight against hunger.

Inflation has been worse in Southern cities, burdening residents and prompting the question: What can it teach the rest of the country?

Feeding Tampa Bay provides seven million meals a week across 10 counties in the Tampa Bay region. The effort to get the food from the donation truck to people’s homes is massive.

Buying food isn’t just getting harder for families in need, it’s hitting the nonprofits that help them. Feeding Tampa Bay and Metropolitan Ministries said surging inflation is straining resources, and both nonprofits said workers are seeing a record number of families needing help. 

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Food insecurity amid the rapid soaring in produce and housing prices in the United States has become a major issue for many Americans.



Over one million people in Tampa Bay do not know where their next meal is coming from, and record-high inflation is only making matters worse for local families and food pantries trying to help.