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Hunger News
April 21, 2008

Food-Bank Organizers Face Shortages


All Things Considered, April 21, 2008 ·

Global food shortages and a faltering U.S. economy are hurting food banks. Leaders in the food bank community are finding creative ways to cope. Two food-bank organizers discuss their approach to the problem.


Deborah Flateman, CEO of the Maryland Food Bank, and Bob Evans, president of the United Food Bank in Mesa, Ariz., discuss their approaches to the problem in a conversation with Melissa Block.

click here to listen to the entire show: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89817185


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