09/14/2024

Warehouse Workers Feel the Strain as Congress Debates Food-bank Funding

The past year has been challenging for food banks

If someone in southeast Ohio picks up food from a food pantry, it probably stopped at the Southeast Ohio Foodbank warehouse first.

The warehouse is the food bank's central hub. Food from major state and federal programs passes through here, making it a vital point in the region's broader food assistance network. Pantries rely on it to stock their shelves.

And yet, the past year has been challenging for the food bank warehouse after a 13 percent federal cut to emergency food packaging and distribution in fiscal year 2024. For almost a year, there's been less money for facilities like this one, and the food bank's employees are bearing the brunt.

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