Hunger crisis grows; food pantries can’t keep up with demand

Hunger crisis grows; food pantries can’t keep up with demand

BY JOHN LAUINGER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, November 23rd 2007, 4:00 AM
Line outside this Queens food pantry is indicative of growing problem in borough as well as the city. Anderson/News

Line outside this Queens food pantry is indicative of growing problem in borough as well as the city.

An alarming number of food pantries and soup kitchens in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx are being forced to turn people away hungry, a new survey shows.

Hunger crisis grows; food pantries can’t keep up with demand.

Another heckvua job

Another heckvua job

Friday, November 23rd 2007, 4:00 AM

The government has victimized – make that doubly victimized – millions of legal immigrants who have applied to become United States citizens. Here is federal incompetence writ large.

First, in July, the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency raised fees for naturalization and other matters by a whopping 86%. The jumps were unconscionable, but CIS promised the money would enable it to process applications more efficiently.

Didn’t happen.

Another heckvua job.