Jennifer Barnes wants you to know that all kinds of people show up at our food pantry

in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Old people, young people.

Jennifer doesn't know all her client stories, but the one thing she does know is that

over the last year, she seemed a lot more of them.

A lot of the new people are elderly or senior citizens.

A lot of them have are newly immigrated.

We have several people who have never been to a food pantry before, but find themselves

in a place where they're not able to provide for their family.

And most everybody, I think 80% of the people have children.

You might think, you know, why Jennifer's seeing so many more people.

After all, eggs are like $7 a dozen these days.

An inflation is part of the reason, but there's another explanation.

In Georgia, the pandemic benefits spigot has been turned all the way off.

You probably remember how quickly the federal government started sending cash to people

in the early days of COVID.

We need help now.

Now it was answers.

There was unemployment relief, the child tax credit, stimulus checks, and a temporary

increase to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as food benefits or food

stamps or simply snap.

Through this relief act, the state will have the ability to grant participants, snap participants

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