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3 responses to “Virginia Welfare Trends”

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   LarrytheG

   September 19, 2016

   I wonder if VDSS has the above by county and a map of Virginia, by county showing this data.

   I can attest to the food part. we participate in a food pantry and we see a steady stream of folks down on their luck – many in poor physical health and unable to work at a regular job… many with teeth problems.

   The Food Bank itself is an awesome concept that in part is based on the idea that most foods have “sell by” dates – that are NOT mandated by govt with the exception of baby formula.

   so the food industry itself determines these dates and the stores monitor their inventories so they can calculated how much they have on hand versus how much they expect to sell.. and the Food Bank will get not only stuff gone out of date but stuff not yet out of date but in their estimation – they have more than they will sell and send the surplus to the Food Bank which then distributes to the pantries – for a fee – of 19 cents a pound – to pay for the Food Bank operation. There are 20-30 pantries in the region that work off of the Food Bank… with volunteers taking their own cars and picking up the ordered food.

   The pantry finances the purchases with donations and staffs pantry day with volunteers.

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      James A. Bacon

      September 19, 2016

      VDSS breaks down the data by locality — at least for some of the data sets I checked.

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         LarrytheG

         September 19, 2016

         would be interesting to see it mapped by county or region.

         we’re a bedroom community of Washington yet we still have folks who are getting welfare and other services…. but I’d not be surprised to see even higher numbers in the more rural and economically depressed counties – and inner cities.

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