{"id":1347,"date":"2024-03-15T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:05:15","slug":"more-than-half-of-uk-people-on-benefits-now-depend-on-food-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"More than half of UK people on benefits now depend on food aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1349\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Salford-foodbank-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Some of Greater Manchester&#8217;s nearly 300 food banks (Photo: Lars Bevanger)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, a group of mothers went on hunger strike outside parliament in London to highlight the level of food poverty in the UK. More than half of people who depend on state benefits now say they cannot afford enough food. Luckily, thousands of volunteers work with food banks and social enterprises to help\u00a0\u2013 although they hope that one day they will no longer be needed. This is my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BEVANGER-UK-food-poverty.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Greater Manchester&#8217;s nearly 300 food banks (Photo: Lars Bevanger) This week, a group of mothers went on hunger strike outside parliament in London to highlight the level of food poverty in the UK. More than half of people who depend on state benefits now say they cannot afford enough food. Luckily, thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}