A statewide study shows inflation and the lapse in pandemic-era help are causing Ohioans to have to choose between food and other necessities.
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Of the foodbanks clients who participated in the survey, 68% said they had to choose between paying for food and paying for transportation or gas, 66% had to choose between food and utilities payments, 55% between medicine/health care or food, and half had to sacrifice either food or housing to make ends meet.
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director for the OAF, called the results “deeply troubling and illustrate that we still have a long way to go to ensure that every Ohioan has access to health and affordable food.” That would include $50 million for a public-private partnership called the Ohio Food Program and Agricultural Clearance Program, which would bring “direct surplus and unmarketable agricultural products from nearly 100 Ohio farmers and producers through the state’s network of foodbanks,” according to the biennial funding request made by the association.
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