- By Ann M. Colt
- Around Town
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Ithaca - More than 9,000 area residents including nearly 2,250 children and 1,350 seniors receive emergency food assistance each week from the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, a member of America's Second Harvest. Recently, the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, joined by United Way of Tompkins County, reported results from the nation’s largest and most comprehensive study on hunger. Both organizations acknowledged that the findings are disturbing. Over 160 food banks across the nation participated in Hunger in America 2006, completing 52,000 face-to-face interviews with people seeking emergency food assistance and more than 30,000 agency surveys, making it the largest, most-comprehensive study ever conducted on domestic hunger. It is difficult for many to believe that hunger exists. “Tompkins County is a typical example of the nature of our service area,” said Natasha R. Thompson, Director of Agency & Warehouse Operations at the Food Bank and a resident of Ithaca. “While there is no doubt a great need in the cities, during the Hunger Study we saw extreme cases of hunger and poverty in the rural areas, most of it hidden from view.”
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