{"id":86679,"date":"2019-11-18T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86679"},"modified":"2019-11-18T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:08:45","slug":"mirror-foodbank-hell-for-britain-as-demand-soars-3800-under-a-decade-of-tory-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86679","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) Foodbank hell for Britain as demand soars 3,800% under a decade of Tory rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foodbank demand has rocketed by 3,772% under a decade of Tory rule, the Mirror can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Bombshell figures show a surge in need from hungry families after nine years of gruelling austerity.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s biggest foodbank network had 57 outlets open in the final year of the Labour government in 2009\/10.<\/p>\n<p>They provided 40,898 aid packages \u2013 the equivalent of 368,082 meals. Of those parcels, 13,959 went to children.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of March the network had 425 foodbanks \u2013 a 646% increase.<\/p>\n<p>Their volunteers gave away 1,583,668 packages \u2013 14,253,012 meals \u2013 in 2018\/19. Some 577,618 parcels went to children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/foodbank-hell-britain-demand-soars-20903189\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foodbank demand has rocketed by 3,772% under a decade of Tory rule, the Mirror can reveal. Bombshell figures show a surge in need from hungry families after nine years of gruelling austerity. Britain\u2019s biggest foodbank network had 57 outlets open<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86679\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,100,199,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-england-uk","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86681,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679\/revisions\/86681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}