In its response to COVID-19, Congress did not expand food stamp benefits
when the non-profit had the largest single-day distribution in its 40-year history. “We have never executed on as large of a demand as we are now.”
He added, “Our staff and our volunteers, I don’t know if we can keep up the pace that the demand is requiring. We’ve got to debrief and figure things out, but we just can’t feed this many people at one time without probably the [National] Guard or somebody helping us.” But food banks are not meant to be a stop-gap measure. They are intended to supplement food stamp programs like WIC and
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