食品伙伴网讯 据外媒报道,安大略州食品银行协会(ontario Association of Food Banks)2015年报告显示,过去一年光顾食品银行的年长者人数增加35%,获取该服务的单身人数破纪录。
报道指出,造成人们求助食品银行的主要原因是就业不稳定情况增长、生活成本增长和社会援助计划不足。
报告称,单身年长者每月最高只能领取1342.78元的政府津贴,这导致他们生活“越来越容易陷入贫困”。
同时报告还提到,生活开支不断上升,在过去一年中,新鲜水果和蔬菜的价格上涨了超过6%,新鲜和冷冻肉的价格上涨了10.7%。食品银行使用者平均将超过70%的收入花费在住房上。
部分原文报道如下:
When the province's food bank association met recently to discuss the latest research on who is going hungry in Ontario, executive Doug Smith suddenly piped up.
“I can relate,” he told his colleagues. “That's my own mother.”
ontario has seen a 35 per cent jump in the number of senior citizens visiting food banks over the past year, according to the ontario Association of Food Banks' 2015 report, and the highest number on record of single people accessing the service.
原文链接:<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/food-banks-ontario-1.3342191>