Going to the Bank for Food, Not Money

Expand Abdalkarim Sama, a volunteer at Sufra Food Bank, sorts through tinned food in the storage section on site at Sufra Food Bank, in Brent, Northwest London, October 9, 2019. © 2019 Human Rights Watch/Kartik Raj In 2020, you should be watching for more people going hungry and relying on aid to feed their families in the world’s wealthiest countries. The United Kingdom offers a stark example, as Human Rights Watch has documented. Since cuts in public spending on welfare for the poorest families began in 2010, use of the country’s largest network of food banks – making up an estimated two-thirds…

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