Greater Chicago Food Depository on helping struggling people get food during the Coronavirus crisis

Greater Chicago Food Depository is serving 76% more people in need than they were in January

Posted: May 22, 2020 / 12:40 PM CDT / Updated: May 22, 2020 / 12:40 PM CDT

In this Tuesday, May 12, 2020, photo, bags of fresh food wait to be given away at an event sponsored by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago. Across the country, food insecurity is adding to the anxiety of millions of people, according to a new survey that finds 37 percent of unemployed Americans ran out of food in the past month, while 46 percent worried that they would. The nationwide unemployment rate on Friday was 14.7 percent, the highest since the Great Depression.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Greater Chicago Food Depository Senior Director of Marketing and Communications Jim Comwell joins Amy Guth to break down the community’s need for help in obtaining food during the Coronavirus crisis.