When Joe Arthur read the news this month that a large distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, would be closing its doors, he immediately pictured the ripple effect it would have.
“There goes 233 jobs, good jobs. That’s 233 families directly affected,” he said.
Arthur is the executive director of the Central PA Food Bank, the hub of a distribution network that typically feeds 135,000 people in the heart of Pennsylvania each month. Since the pandemic, that number has risen to about 200,000 people a month.
About one-third of those people are children, he said.
“We think of that in the cities, but what we’re seeing is the challenge in rural areas that have been impacted at least as hard as our small cities. A lot of those new families that we serve are in rural areas,” he said.
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