This year’s Thanksgiving at Deborah Gregory’s house will feature a traditional turkey, mac and cheese, green beans, stuffing, and three different kinds of pies.
But she wasn’t sure whether she was going to have anything on the table a couple of months ago.
She just started going to local food pantry Loaves & Fishes distribution sites this fall in Charlotte, like many people across the country forced into food insecurity because of the pandemic.
Food banks everywhere have seen a huge increase in demand since the coronavirus swept the country in March, and many of the visitors are newcomers, like
