From Oregon-
This week, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is expecting 700 people for Thanksgiving.
Of course, you also have to leave room for drop-ins.
Especially in this economy.
Every Wednesday -- this week, Thursday -- Trinity Episcopal, in Northwest Portland, hosts a free lunch, with three courses, real plates, table service and the curious belief that hungry people are not just mouths to feed. Every day, the church offers a small bag of food, mostly canned, for anybody who walks in, and the people leaving lunch on Wednesdays rarely forget to pick one up.
There's a lot of that going around.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released new hunger statistics that might be called hair-raising, especially in Oregon. In 2009, according to the USDA, more than 50 million Americans, including 17 million children, lived in what it calls "low food security" households. (For a department that oversees hog slaughtering, the USDA keeps its language very delicate.)
Worse, the category the USDA calls "very low food security" -- meaning family members were actually missing meals because they couldn't afford to buy food -- rose to 17.7 million, more than double what it was in 2009.
More here-
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