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Anti-Hunger Groups are Reporting a Higher Demand for Food

posted 3:07 pm Tue November 20, 2007 - Arkansas

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Anti-hunger groups in Arkansas are reporting a higher demand for food that they blame mostly on higher fuel prices. Phyllis Haynes of the Arkansas Foodbank Network in Little Rock says the organization is spending more for less food. Little Rock warehouse has less food than in previous years, plus the quality and variety of the inventory has declined.

The Network distributed 17,000 pounds less in food this year than it had by the same time last year.

In Hempstead County, shelves at Hope In Action almost went empty earlier this month. Mae Dulaney, the food pantry's organizer, said the pantry added 34 families in October alone.

The pantry at Gardner Memorial United Methodist Church in North Little Rock had only 52 Thanksgiving baskets to give away Monday although some 70 people were standing in line when the doors opened.

According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey, a little more than 14% of Arkansas families reported a higher incidence of hunger between 2004 and 2006.

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