Loaves and Fishes

Loaves and Fishes expects to serve a record number of people and families in need this Thanksgiving. The increased demand comes amid a year of high food prices and reduced SNAP benefits.

Households will no longer receive a second payment on their EBT card toward the end of the month, as they have been since March 2020, as the emergency allotments expire next month.

The economic slowdown that came with the coronavirus pandemic put a squeeze on Charlotte's food pantries. As people lost jobs and income, demand rose and pantries have scrambled to keep food supply flowing. Now, those pantries are working to recover, too.

Two Charlotte-area food programs founded in the mid-1970s are merging. Loaves & Fishes and Friendship Trays say the merger will bring savings, such as combining staffs and sharing office space.

After big declines the past few years in the number of families who need help putting food on the table, food crises essentially flattened in Mecklenburg…

In Mecklenburg County, the number of families who need help putting food on the table has decreased dramatically this year. That's according to Loaves and…

Thousands of Charlotte families are eating a Thanksgiving meal that was provided by food pantries. Beverly Howard is the director of the 19 Loaves and…

Poverty is one the rise in the Carolinas. The Census Bureau announced Thursday morning that almost 100,000 more people were driven into poverty last year…