Food bank

Claire Babineaux-Fontenot discusses food inflation, food insecurity and efforts to influence government policymakers.

To blunt the pain of tariffs, the government is buying more than $1 billion in surplus food. Much of that will go to food banks.

A survey of 34 universities and community colleges found that about 48 percent of students reported food insecurity in the previous 30 days, 22 percent with such low levels of food security that they qualified as hungry.

As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday, food banks are gearing up to help the hungry.