{"id":833,"date":"2023-07-11T05:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2023-07-11T05:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:47:28","slug":"food-bank-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Food Bank Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>Vail-area food banks say they\u2019d been expecting food insecurity figures to fall after the pandemic.&nbsp; But instead, they\u2019re rising, getting worse\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Eagle County Food Aid\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:50)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-155ea689-f058-4a36-b127-c5cb78d42110\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230711-Eagle-County-Food-Aid.mp3\">230711-Eagle-County-Food-Aid<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230711-Eagle-County-Food-Aid.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-155ea689-f058-4a36-b127-c5cb78d42110\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food Bank of the Rockies knew when COVID hit in 2020, demand for the free food if offers to Eagle County residents would dramatically grow.&nbsp; Eagle had been projected in May of that year to be 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;in the entire country in terms of overall change in its food insecurity, with a hike of 124 percent projected for 2020 over 2 years earlier.&nbsp; And most figured that kind of change would subside after the pandemic.&nbsp; But now, in \u201923, sustained food insecurity\u2019s higher in Eagle County than ever.&nbsp; The local Salvation Army chapter says it\u2019s never seen demand as high as it is today.&nbsp; Where maybe 20 folks a day used to be a big food rush, Salvation Army officials now say they\u2019re seeing some 80 people each day.&nbsp; Food spending by aid organizations also including Food Bank of the Rockies and Community Market is also higher than ever.&nbsp; Such groups say they\u2019re glad their donations and volunteer staffing have remained strong, but if you\u2019re interested, they can always use more volunteer help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vail-area food banks say they\u2019d been expecting food insecurity figures to fall after the pandemic.&nbsp; But instead, they\u2019re rising, getting worse\u2026 (Eagle County Food Aid\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:50) Food Bank of the Rockies knew when COVID hit in 2020, demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}