Thread by @washingtonpost

One in 7 adults in the U.S. are in a family without enough to eat -- a crisis made worse by the pandemic.

In Pennsylvania and New Mexico, Maryland and California, The Post spent time with people living with hunger, and the people trying to help them. wapo.st/3cf30W0

Across America, people are lining up for food - on foot and in cars, at churches and rec centers and in parking lots, in wealthy states and poorer ones. They are parents and grandparents, students and veterans, employed and underemployed and jobless.wapo.st/3cf30W0

After months of deadlock, lawmakers passed a relief package in December that includes $400 million to help supply food banks. But other critical food programs worth billions expired at year’s end.wapo.st/3cf30W0

The country’s largest network of food banks says it is bracing for a 50 percent reduction in food received from the government this year, even as demand soars. wapo.st/3cf30W0

Nearly 30 million adults reported they sometimes or often didn’t have enough to eat in the last week, according to the latest Census Bureau data analyzed by The Post, more than at any time during the pandemic. wapo.st/3cf30W0