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Food Bank CEOs: Food Insecurity Situation is “Critical”

Unemployment has surged during the pandemic and experts say there’s more hunger in America today than at any point since 1998. To discuss this dire situation, Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, who as CEO of Feeding America oversees the country’s largest network of foodbanks, alongside David Krepcho, who runs the Second Harvest foodbank in Florida.

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