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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.