NJDiscover’s FoodBank video shown at the Restore the Shore Concert Series on Thursday at the Strand Theater in Lakewood.
Proceeds from the concert went to the FoodBank of Monmouth & Ocean Counties.
For every $1 the FoodBank provides 3 meals.

In the United States:

• In New Jersey:In 2008, one in seven households (14.6%) in the US were food insecure – over 49 million people. This means they did not have access to enough food to meet their basic needs.¹
• This includes almost 17 million children.
• In 2005, nearly one in five US children lived in homes earning at or below the Federal poverty level (17.2%).²

• The US has the highest wage inequality, wealth disparity, poverty rate and child poverty rate of any industrialized nation.³

• The very high cost of living makes it difficult for low-income people to make ends meet. While the Federal poverty level for a family of four has become $20,650 in 2007, a recent study showed that such a family needs over $40,000 to meet its most basic needs in New Jersey.⁴
• Low wages and high cost of living forces one in every five households in New Jersey to struggle to live on an income below the Self-Sufficiency Standard, that is, inadequate to meet basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, health care, child care and transportation to work.⁵
• 85% of these households have at least one person working (non-elderly, non-disabled households).⁴
• 11.8% of children under 18 (over 1 million children) live below the Federal poverty line.²
• One out of every three people receiving emergency food are children.⁶

In Monmouth & Ocean Counties: