{"id":683748,"date":"2021-03-11T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683748"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:13:09","slug":"food-bank-use-surged-during-the-pandemic-but-they-can-rarely-provide-all-the-help-people-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683748","title":{"rendered":"Food bank use surged during the pandemic \u2013 but they can rarely provide all the help people need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many families have faced a number of new economic challenges since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although some incomes have been bolstered through a \u00a320 weekly universal credit uplift or protected through the job retention scheme (furlough), it wasn&#8217;t enough to prevent a further surge in the use of food banks. But research shows that while services such as food banks provide marginal help, they are ultimately limited in scope\u2014often leaving people still in dire situations.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-food-bank-surged-pandemic-rarely.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Food bank use surged during the pandemic \u2013 but they can rarely provide all the help people need<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many families have faced a number of new economic challenges since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although some incomes have been bolstered through a \u00a320 weekly universal credit uplift or protected&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}