March 26, 1998

Food Banks Can't Keep Up With Huge Demand, Study Finds

By PAUL DEMKO

Second Harvest, the country's largest chain of food banks, fed almost 26 million people last year -- nearly 10 per cent of America's population. Even so, it had to turn away an estimated 2.3 million hungry people because of a lack of food.

Those figures were contained in "Hunger 1997: The Faces & Facts," the most comprehensive study that Second Harvest has ever done of its 185 member food banks. Released this month, the report was based on a study of 79

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