There are many heartbreaking tales behind the record number of Canadians using food banks as they struggle with high inflation and mounting housing costs, says a Vancouver food bank executive.
Canned products sit on shelves at a food bank in Ottawa, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Boulter said the "unprecedented, record-breaking times" are being felt by food banks across the country, where nearly two million people visited in the month of March, 32 per cent more than the same month the year before, and a 78 per cent increase compared with March 2019. Seniors, single mothers, low-income workers, people on social assistance, and immigrants continue to drive food bank use, but this year's report showed a rise in use among working people in higher income brackets.
More than a quarter of food bank users are immigrants who have been in Canada for less than a decade, the report said, a usage rate that has doubled since 2016. Political action, she said, means that governments need to make "long term social policy investments," from action on affordable housing to increasing fixed income rates. As the affordability crisis has intensified, Beardsley said, people who work at food banks "quite frankly, are shouldering too much of this burden."
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