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‘Frightening’: Utah food banks scramble to meet highest-ever demand as families ‘bombarded’ by rising costs

Utah Food Bank officials thought demand during the pandemic would be the highest they’d ever see. They were wrong.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteer Charlie Felgar loads bread into the trunk of a car for the Utah Food for Families distribution at Calvary Salt Lake in Murray on Thursday, March 6, 2025. It's a "frightening" time for food banks across the state, where pandemic demand never died down and now inflation, the threat of tariffs and impending federal layoffs have exacerbated the situation.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteer Charlie Felgar loads bread into the trunk of a car for the Utah Food for Families distribution at Calvary Salt Lake in Murray on Thursday, March 6, 2025. It's a "frightening" time for food banks across the state, where pandemic demand never died down and now inflation, the threat of tariffs and impending federal layoffs have exacerbated the situation.

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