Volunteers wear protective gloves and face masks as they handle pre-bagged food donations at City Harvest's Bed-Stuy Mobile Market operating in the Tomkins Houses area, Wednesday, March 18, 2020.

The State of Food Insecurity in NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 12, 2022

New data from City Harvest shows that visits to food pantries and soup kitchens in the first half of 2022 were up about 69 percent compared to 2019. Jilly Stephens, CEO of City Harvest, joins us to discuss rising food insecurity in the city.

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