While critics have warned of increased need in the city — longer
lines at food pantries and the like — the Bloomberg administration has maintained that poverty remained relatively constant during the recession and the weak — if that — recovery.
About two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing
lines at food pantries.
Not exact matches
People start
lining up well before the Irving Park
Food Pantry opens
at 9 a.m. each Wednesday.
He says the
lines at his cathedral's
food pantry are getting longer, and the church has opened a new soup kitchen.
Longer
lines at soup kitchens and
food pantries.
«Poor mothers also skipped meals and stood in long
lines at non-profit
food pantries to provide
food for their children,» Bowen says.