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1 Food Bank of the Southern Tier Hunger Has a Cure

2 What is Hunger?

3 What Is a Food Bank? Food Pantry Food Warehouse

4 Products ManufacturersProcessorsDistributorsRetailersGrowers Food Bank of the Southern Tier Agencies Food Pantries Soup Kitchens Senior Centers SheltersYouth Programs Residential Programs People in Need Flow of Food to the Hungry

5 Hunger in the Southern Tier Each week, over 11,000 individuals visit a pantry, soup kitchen or emergency shelter.

6 Hunger in Tompkins County Almost 14% of people live below the poverty level. 32 member agencies distributed over 1 million pounds of food. 50% of clients are seniors.

7 Who Are the Hungry? Working Poor People on a fixed income Families with children Not all are receiving public assistance Many have to make difficult choices

8 Making Ends Meet Basic Needs Family of 4 $12.23/hour Minimum Wage $7.25/hour Poverty Guidelines Family of 4 Weekly Monthly Yearly $978 $4,239 $50,863 $580$424 $2,513$1,838 $30,160 $22,050

9 Federal Safety Net Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – 130% ($2,389) Family Health Plus – 175% ($2,757) Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) – 212% ($3,903) Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – 220% ($4,043)

10 Gaps in Federal Safety Net SNAP –Only 53% of eligible New Yorkers receive benefits. –Thrifty Food Plan. When Work Doesn’t Pay: –Cliffs and Phase Outs

11 “Sweet Charity” Emergency Food Programs –Food Pantries –Soup Kitchens –Emergency Shelters The 7 Deadly “Ins” of Emergency Food

12 The 7 Deadly “Ins” 1.Insufficiency 2.Inappropriateness 3.Nutritional Inadequacy 4.Instability 5.Inaccessibility 6.Inefficiency 7.Indignity

13 What can you do? Learn about the issue –Register for email updates from the Food Research and Action Center - frac.org Get involved in direct service –Volunteer at a local pantry or soup kitchen –Community Food Security Projects –Coordinate a fund/food drive Advocate for change –Cornell Against Hunger – lcg23@cornell.edu –Tompkins County Worker’s Center- tclivingwage.org –Mobilize.org

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