Food Banks Canada's HungerCount study reports highest level of food bank use

CNW Group Tuesday 16th November, 2010

. This is 28% higher than in 2008, and is the highest level of food bank use since 1997. Of the 867,948 people helped in March this year, 80,150 - 9.2% of the total - stepped through the front ...

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