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Poverty, food banks are different issues
Friday, November 26th, 2010
26/11/2010
Many people believe that food banks are a necessary evil, a community response to the failure of governments to address increasing poverty, and even a canary in the mine for our society. The evidence, however, does not support the notion that food bank use and poverty rates are closely linked. Over the period the food banks have been collecting statistics, while food bank utilization has been rising, poverty has in fact been falling… If poverty is not getting worse, why are more people using food banks? The answer probably lies in the way food banks operate their service.
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