Year: 2018
In Eastern Massachusetts, the average low-income meal cost ranged from $2.49 to $3.00 per meal or 34 to 61 percent higher than the SNAP maximum benefit.
GBFB’s free produce Mobile Market program has grown to eight locations and serves an average of 7,000 food-insecure individuals every month.
Healthy choices in the supermarket translate to healthy food for those struggling with hunger, thanks to Hannaford Supermarkets and GBFB.
This is a critical year for protecting federal assistance programs, such as SNAP, the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, and CSFP, which provides staple food items to low-income seniors.
In total, GBFB distributed over half a million pounds of food—equivalent to more than 400,000 healthy meals—to hunger-relief agencies in Plymouth last year.
We need you to send a message to Congress today. Millions of food-insecure people would be at risk of losing access to critical hunger-relief programs if changes proposed in the president’s FY19 budget are enacted.
When Shane was an infant, his great-grandmother told everyone that Shane would “change the world one day.”
When you have to choose between paying for food and paying your rent, you probably can’t afford to eat fresh fruits and vegetables frequently, if at all.
The rising cost of living in Eastern Massachusetts makes it hard for many low-income families to put food on the table.
New research shows hunger and food insecurity in our state increased health-related expenditures by an estimated $2.4 billion at least, in 2016 alone.