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Nov 30, 2021 · Food bank usage in Ontario rose 10 per cent during the first year of the pandemic to the highest levels since the recession, a new report has found.
Food bank use peaked in 2010 in the aftermath of the 2008-09 recession. While there have been fluctuations since, food bank visits have never returned to pre-recession levels. In fact, in the past two years, food bank visits in Toronto have climbed back to 2010 levels.
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Oct 31, 2021 · Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount 2021 report shows that visits to food banks climbed 20 per cent nationally since the arrival of COVID-19, with one-in-four locations experiencing a 50 per...
- Will Reimer
Dec 4, 2020 · The use of food banks, designed as an emergency option and not a full-time solution to policy failings, has steadily increased for years. According to Feed Ontario, the 2008 recession resulted in a 29 percent jump in food bank users.
- Millions of Canadians Are Food-Insecure
- Mirrors The Early 1980s
- It’S About Income, Not Food Supply
- A Basic Income Is Required
Pre-pandemic, 4.4 million Canadians, not including the homeless and Indigenous Peoples living on First Nations, were residing in food-insecure households due to financial constraints, the highest estimate yet recorded by Statistics Canada’s biannual Canadian Community Health Survey. Food insecurity is an ongoing national emergency “most prevalent a...
The economic hit of the COVID-19 pandemic mirrors the deep recession and double-digit unemployment of the early 1980s. Under-funded unemployment insurance and social assistance gave way to imported, American-style food banks that propped up Canada’s fraying social safety net. Governments looked away. Poverty and hunger were privatized and downloade...
Ottawa and provincial and territorial governments must own and act on their national public health data that food insecurity is an income problem, not a food problem. COVID-19 makes this reality abundantly clear. Nationwide, COVID-19 has produced a spike from 10.5 per cent to 14.6 cent of the number of Canadian households reporting they’re food-ins...
An adequate, indexed Basic Income is the way ahead, coupled with significant investment in rebuilding Canada’s social safety net to provide accessible, universal basic services, including national school meals, affordable housing, child care, early childhood education, mental health programs, education and employment training, to name just a few. G...
- Graham Riches
However, challenges have been significant for households that were already experiencing food insecurity and using food banks to try and fill gaps. Food banks emerged in the 1980s in order to provide temporary, short-term relief to unemployed workers during a recession.
Based on phone surveys with over 220 food bank clients in May and June 2020 and an analysis of food bank client intake data, the report demonstrates that COVID-19 has led to increased reliance on food banks.
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