Food banks in upscale areas are seeing a marked increase in customers from what one New Jersey food-pantry operator called “the next layer of people,” newly jobless blue- and white-collar workers facing a financial crisis for the first time, The New York Times reports.

Demand at food banks across the country rose 30 percent last year, according to a survey by the national hunger-relief organization Feeding America. Food pantries in well-to-do areas such as Morris County, N.J., Lake Forest, Ill., Greenwich, Conn., and Marin County, Calif., are reporting long lines and adding hours or loosening restrictions on visits to accommodate the crowds.

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