Adults are increasingly relying on Toronto food banks more than young people, a new report has found. The Daily Bread Food Bank released its annual Who's Hungry report on Monday, breaking down the trends behind the 905,970 visits its clients made between April 2015 and March 2016. And while the overall number of food bank visits has remained nearly the same, there was an uptick during the first three months of 2016. Daily Bread found "a combination of stagnant incomes, rapidly rising food and housing costs, and an influx of newcomers" was behind that surge. - Daily Bread Food Bank reportThe Toronto decrease may be partly due to the closure of one east end food bank and scaled-back operations in another one in Parkdale.
Source: CBC News September 19, 2016 09:02 UTC