{"id":427169,"date":"2026-08-08T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427169\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:46:09","slug":"the-need-is-tremendous-bay-area-food-banks-see-longer-lines-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427169\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The need is tremendous\u2019: Bay Area food banks see longer lines \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay Area charities are sounding the alarm on a dire situation many families are facing amid higher food prices and cuts to government benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Many local nonprofits say there is no light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to trying to meet the demand for food assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need is tremendous,&#8221; said Deborah Dorton, director of a food pantry program at True Vines Baptist Church in San Jose. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people that are struggling, a lot of people that don&#8217;t have enough food. Our crowd is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Damian Trujillo takes a closer look at the challenges local charities are facing to help struggling families. Watch his report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay Area charities are sounding the alarm on a dire situation many families are facing amid higher food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[413,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-427169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-food","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}