Melanie Gray and Georgett Roberts
August 22, 2020
The line stretched a quarter-mile before the sun was barely up
Saturday, snaking around corners like bread lines in the 1930s. But the
hungry in Queens are today’s New Yorkers, left jobless by the coronavirus. Until the pandemic struck the city, La Jornada food pantry used to
hand out groceries to roughly 1,000 families a week. Now, the figure
tops 10,000. And volunteers serve lunch every day to 1,000 — many of
them kids with growling stomachs. Across the five boroughs, the hungry
number in the hundreds of thousands, the Food Bank of New York
estimates.
“It reminds me of the picture from the Great Depression where a man
in a suit and tie is giving another man in a suit and tie an apple.
That’s all he had,” La Jornada’s Pedro Rodriguez told The Post. “We give
all we have, but that’s not enough.” Seniors, moms and kids, singles — many immigrants from China and
Mexico — wait for hours. They turn out in droves wherever, and whenever,
the food pantry’s truck shows up............To Read More.....
My Take - And a man named Warren Wilhelm, later know as Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm and finally to Bill de Blasio wanted to do for the United States what he was doing for NYC. Imagine that!
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