As mid-terms approach, don't forget Ohio's hungry
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Matt Krupnick in Grove City, Ohio
Wed 12 Oct 2022 09.31 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/12/hunger-food-insecurity-midterms-humiliating-us-voters
The cars started lining up at least an hour before the late shift at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, a converted mattress factory just south of Columbus. Drivers pulled into a white tent where volunteers rolled grocery carts full of produce, meat, cake, detergent and other items toward each vehicle, efficiently loading trunks.
One volunteer, 31-year-old Danyel Barwick, directed traffic with a big orange flag. It wasn’t long ago that Barwick, a Columbus mother of four, was on the other side of the food bank equation.
“It was humiliating,” said Barwick, who lost her job during the pandemic in 2020 and, realizing she had no protein in the house and had used all her fast-food coupons, decided to visit a food pantry at a local church. “I was embarrassed and sad.”
As US voters prepare to decide control of both houses of Congress in November, millions will head to the polls while struggling to feed themselves and their families. In 2021, according to the US Department of Agriculture, more than 13m households had trouble affording enough food. And there are signs, from census data, that food hardship could be getting worse this year. [snip]
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GOP greedy monetary policies of cruelty and selfish, judgmental Christofascist groups deciding who and who is not worthy for emergency "food" continue to escalate inflation even as pandemic isolation has been "declared" over and national job numbers return. GOTV, Ohioans, for a more prosperous state. Lose the embedded "redness" that create the MSM-created royal purple color of Ohio - turn it BLUE from top to bottom!!! Ladies, Roe, Roe, Roe your votes for the Ohio Supreme Court candidates because that's not the ONLY right and/or family safety net or people-powered suppression the GOP wants to eradicate for all citizens via case litigation. Don't give up your right to vote!