food assistance

The pandemic changed how we shop for food. At Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market, shoppers have been spending more through assistance programs to purchase produce.

According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps survey, formal volunteer participation dropped 7% between 2019 and 2021. That's the largest decrease the survey has recorded since a version of it started in 2002.

Figures from Feeding America say 288,970 Utahns face hunger with 104,840 of those being children.

Several pantries in the region have seen their number of customers double since the pandemic began. Some folks who never needed food assistance before this summer are coming for the first time.

Utah school districts will continue to offer free and reduced school lunches, they'll just have less funding and more restrictions than they’ve had the past two years.

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The number of people getting food assistance from Utah’s SNAP program has significantly declined over the past two years. State officials credit…