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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, February 14th, 2024.
Later in the program, we have Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. Today we look into Food Insecurity in Monroe and Brown Counties. More in today’s feature report.
Also coming up in the next half hour, “Counterfeit Websites” on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB. More following today’s feature.
But first, the latest edition of Deep Dive:
This is Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into Food Insecurity in Monroe and Brown Counties.
In Bloomington, one out of every ten residents cannot access the food they need. That’s according to the 2021 Bloomington Food Access Report. United Way of South Central Indiana reports that Monroe County has a 16 percent food insecurity rate, which is higher than both the state and national averages. In Brown County, the food insecurity rate is 10.6 percent, according to Feeding America.
According to the Bloomington Food Access Report the top five barriers to accessing food are high food prices, time to prepare food, low wages, housing costs, and limited transportation. In addition to low wages a percentage of residents said that social security benefits were too low to cover the cost of living.
WFHB News spoke with Julio Alonso, Executive Director and CEO of the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. According to its website, Hoosier Hills collects, stores and distributes food to non-profit agencies that feed the hungry in Brown, Lawrence, Orange, Owen, Martin and Monroe counties.
We also spoke with the Executive Director of Mother’s Cupboard Community Kitchen in Nashville, Indiana, Jill Baker, who explained that people can’t afford to pay for groceries after they have paid for their rent and utilities. Tune in next week to learn more about how food insecurity impacts residents of Monroe County. To read the full article written by Christina Avery and Haley Miller, and photographed by Olivia Bianco, visit Limestone Post Magazine.
Better Beware:
Up next, “Counterfeit Websites” on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB. We turn to host and producer Richard Fish for more.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky Schneider.
Better Beware is produced by Richard Fish.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
