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The Holidays Are About Helping Others. Here’s How I Help.
Every holiday season, I work on a charity project. Years ago, it was donating to Toys for Tots and “adopting” a family.
This year, I have donated food to our local food bank and toys and food to the local APL.
We all have so much and we don’t need anymore clutter in our homes. That’s why charity is so important to me.
Families squeezed by higher housing and fuel costs have less — or in some cases nothing — to spend at the grocery store, where prices are 6.3% higher than they were a year ago, according to the latest inflation data.
“People who had gotten out of the line are now coming back in,” said Mike Manning, president and CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, which serves an 11-parish area in Louisiana. Rising gas prices make getting to jobs more of a financial burden, especially for the working poor, he noted. “It’s affecting their ability to put food on the table,” Manning said.
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