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Friday, December 23, 2011

More Middle-Class Lowans Hitting Food Banks

(CBS News)  
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa caucuses are just 12 days away. Jobs and the economy have dominated the campaign there -- even though the state's unemployment rate is nearly three percentage points below the national average. More Iowans, who've never done it before are seeking help these days.
It is no surprise that the urban poor line up at the downtown Des Moines food bank. But as CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports, the surprise is in at the upscale suburb of Urbandale -- where the need is skyrocketing. The number of families coming here is up 80 percent over last year.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lowans - what

Anonymous said...

People that live in Lowa!