1 in 4 Americans are skipping meals or relying on food donations during the coronavirus pandemic. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"People don't go to a food bank for no reason. They go to a food bank when they've run out of food," Swonk, a trained labor economist, says. She adds that food insecurity is hitting children disproportionately hard. "Kids are skipping meals and not getting fed appropriate nutrition at a critical time in their lives."
For many Americans, the reason behind the "extraordinary food insecurity" in recent months is based, in part, on the fact that many have had their unemployment benefits delayed, Swonk says. Ongoing research shows that many filing for unemployment have had to wait for weeks, if not a month or longer, to receive their benefits. Over 40 million Americans submitted unemployment claims since states began to issue stay-at-home orders and shut down businesses, according to. Of those, just under 27 million claims have been processed, with workers either already receiving or awaiting payment.
But the data shows that states are processing claims at a faster pace now than at the beginning of the crisis. By the end of April about 47% of workers had their unemployment claims paid, up from just 14% at the end of March.
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