Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks

A woman in her 50s wearing gold earrings and a red Vera Bradley bag over her shoulder said she had recently lost her job and had been struggling to pay her bills. “I can understand why people would be embarrassed to come here,” the woman, who gave only her first name, Louise, said as she loaded her groceries into the trunk of a silver Chevy Malibu. “I guess I am a little embarrassed.”