midterm elections. in a hail mary, biden administration appears to be banking on the youth vote, i m john roberts in washington. you are all warmed up. sandra: and a lot more to dig into there, great to be with you. sandra smith in new york. this is america reports. biden administration is now just moments away from announcing that it is cancelling $5.8 billion in loans for borrowers who attended a for profit college. now middle class americans are left picking up the tab as experts warn a recession is just around the corner. it s the largest student loan cancellation in u.s. history as 560,000 borrowers are now off the hook. john: but could that just be a sweetener? the move comes a day after biden admitted gas and food prices are not going to come down soon. gas prices a new record high, up more than $0.50 in the past month. and new disappointing private sector job data out shows businesses are struggling to hire workers. sandra: it is a big problem and worse. south
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into their hands. so gary, you know, how do you manage? how do you get the food into a war zone? how do you get to the people who need the help? going to places like kharkiv has got to be extraordinarily difficult and dangerous. i think you just have to make the decision. there are enough people talking about this, and we just felt that we needed to act. and so we came in, we ve leased a warehouse, we re purchasing food from all over europe, we re bringing it in. we re putting it in trucks, getting it across the border. we have two warehouses in ukraine that we use as intermediary stops. and then we work through the local pastors and local community leaders to put that in smaller vans and move that to the front. we re working through the network that already existed in ukraine, and that s the church and that s the people that are already on the ground and taking care of their neighbors. you know, they just need us to give them a hand.
and we re in the middle of a global pandemic and there s tremendous inflation, the cost of food is rising, walk us through how difficult it s been for food banks across the country to meet demand. yeah, so since the beginning of the pandemic, we have talked frequently about the impact on food insecurity as a perfect storm. we ve seen tremendous increases in demand, though, they are down from when businesses were closed early in the pandemic. we re still at elevated levels over prepandemic levels. as you mentioned, we ve seen tremendous pressures in the supply chain and then right now, the major challenge that food banks are facing is the increased cost of food. so as you and i see those prices go up in the grocery store, food banks were able to get through, to serve almost 6.6 billion meals last year. in part by purchasing food. so they re experiencing those