America’s new wave of hunger is here. A Maine food bank is tackling it head on
by Elaine Appleton Grant with photographs by Greta Ry from US news | The Guardian on (#6YTZK)
No Greater Love strained to serve hungry patrons in Maine, New England's most food insecure state. Then they lost more than 1,000lb of federally funded goods
One Sunday in June, it's 20 minutes before opening time at the No Greater Love food pantry in Belfast, Maine, two hours north of Portland. A line of cars stretches down the block and curls around the corner. I lean into a car window and ask the driver if he will speak with me.
Nah," he says, I'd rather not."
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