As a food programs manager at New York Common Pantry, a poverty reduction nonprofit, Jorge Negron works the Sunday shift in East Harlem, making sure that hungry New Yorkers can pick up a brown-bag meal on a day when most pantries and soup kitchens are closed.
Until the coronavirus outbreak pushed millions of people into unemployment, Mr. Negron said that food insecurity seemed largely under the radar for most New Yorkers. But that’s not the case anymore.
“When you see a past classmate from junior high school drop by to pick up food, ” he said, “it hits you hard, and you realize even more how hard it is for everyone right now.”
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Mr. Negron, 29, has a roommate, but he temporarily moved upstate several weeks ago. Now it’s just Mr. Negron and his cat, Neptune, living together in a two-bedroom apartment in Fort George, Manhattan.
‘MEOW’ (WAKE UP, HUMAN) I adopted Neptune from a nearby rescue organization last September and since then, he’s been a reliable alarm clock, waking me up around 6 or 6:30 a.m. I shower. Every other week, I give myself a haircut with clippers. I’ve been doing it for six or seven years now, so I’m pretty good at it, and quick. The shower and haircut are part of my own little self-care routine where I first focus on myself before I tackle what’s ahead.
THE RIGHT STUFF I’m really into making my own cold brew, but I struggled for months to get the formula right. Some batches have been too weak, some too strong but I think I finally got it down: eight tablespoons of coffee to 32 ounces of hot water. I leave the coffee in a French Press for 24 hours, then strain it into a Mason jar. I make it in batches, so I don’t have to do it every day.
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PLAY Lately I’ve been playing a lot on my Nintendo Switch. My friends and I have been into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Normally I would stretch out my body by taking a walk in Fort Tryon Park but now I do some strength exercises in my apartment. I’d like to be summer-body ready, so I did a high-intensity work out with a kettle bell. I watch whatever video my Google Home Mini queues up on my TV because looking at an instructor helps me make sure my form is correct. I’m still searching for a favorite fitness instructor. It’s hard to tell if I’m progressing. I miss the gym.
WORK I get to my office around noon and wipe everything down. It usually takes about an hour and a half to get through my work emails. Around 2:30, I go over to our pantry to see what needs to be sorted out. The number of staff and volunteers have been drastically cut so there’s pallets of food that need to be shelved and put away. We’ve been getting produce donations from FreshDirect recently, which is especially important during a health crisis so people can access healthy food.
LONGER LINES I make sure we have enough peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to distribute. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, we would hand out about 80 to 90 brown-bag lunches. Now, we’re nearly doubling the amount. Recently I have noticed more families and kids in the line, which makes me extremely sad. Lunches are distributed between 4 and 5. The line starts to form around 2:30. It’s heartbreaking to see people worried and think there’s no guarantee that there will be food for them unless they’re the first in line.
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WALK HOME Normally the lunches are distributed inside the building but now we have a table set up outside. I help a co-worker put everything back inside to wrap up our day. I continue to sort things out in the pantry, put any leftover food in the fridge. Around 5:30, I leave work and walk through Central Park. The weather has been nice, so there have been plenty of people out. Its been shocking to see so many people without masks and gloves, though. But I guess we’re all trying to take advantage of the little freedom we have right now.
Afterwards, Mr. Negron walks through Central Park, pauses for a few minutes on a bench and then gets on the 1 train uptown home to Inwood.Credit... Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
CALLING PARIS Now I’m in the habit of removing my clothing at the door, washing my hands, and sanitizing right away. I am keenly aware that as a single person working during the shutdown, I can potentially carry and transmit the virus. It’s a strange reality. To unwind, I talk to my best friend in Paris. We were supposed to travel together right before the travel ban was placed. Last Sunday we got lost in conversation for hours and I missed my chance to make dinner, so I reheated leftovers.
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SUDS Normally I go out on Sunday nights but now my day ends with lots of video chats and TV. I end the night by taking a hot bath. It soothes my sore muscles from my morning workout and helps me clear my head. I go to bed around 11 and look forward to Monday, my day off.All articles published by are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by , including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https:///openaccess.
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Applying a Multi-Dimensional Digital Food and Nutrition Literacy Model to Inform Research and Policies to Enable Adults in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to Make Healthy Purchases in the Online Food Retail Ecosystem
The United States (U.S.) Department of Agriculture (USDA)-administered Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) made substantial changes in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. These changes highlight the need to identify the digital literacy skills and capacities of SNAP adults to purchase healthy groceries online. We conducted a scoping review of four electronic databases, Google and Google Scholar to identify studies that measured food and nutrition literacy outcomes for U.S. adults. We applied a multi-dimensional digital food and nutrition literacy (MDFNL) model to assess six literacy levels and components. Of 18 studies published from 2006–2021, all measured functional and interactive literacy but no study measured communicative, critical, translational, or digital literacy. Six studies examined SNAP or SNAP-Education outcomes. Adults with higher food or nutrition literacy scores had better cognitive, behavioral, food security and health outcomes. We suggest how these findings may inform research, policies, and actions to strengthen the multi-dimensional literacy skills of SNAP participants and SNAP-eligible adults to support healthy purchases in the online food retail ecosystem.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread throughout the United States (U.S.) and globally in late 2019 through 2021. By June 2021, COVID-19 had infected over 33 million Americans and caused more than 599, 000 deaths [1]. During 2020, COVID-19 profoundly weakened the food and nutrition security for American households. One in four urban U.S. households with children experienced food insufficiency and adverse mental health outcomes [2]. Many Americans struggled to pay their monthly rent, credit card bills, or other debts, and depleted their savings accounts or could not afford medical care [3, 4]. By December 2020, 11 million Americans had transitioned into poverty after losing their jobs and depleting the short-term emergency funds provided by the federal government through the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act [5, 6]. By March 2021, 18 million adults reported not having enough food and 67 million adults had difficulty paying for household expenses, such as rent, food or medical costs [7].
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COVID-19 disrupted the U.S. food supply, distribution, and services systems and produced major changes in the federal government’s safety-net programs [8]. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), provides monthly monetary benefits to low-income families with a household income of ≤130 percent of the poverty income level. SNAP served 40 million Americans in 2019 and cost U.S. $70 billion [9].
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. household food insecurity rates were about 10.5 percent in 2019, representing 13.7
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