Maui Food Bank’s Windfall Exposes Federal Disaster Aid Failures and Growing Hunger Crisis
After Maui’s devastating wildfires, a surge in disaster donations has temporarily bolstered the local food bank, but exposes serious gaps in federal disaster response and looming hunger risks for working families stretched thin by rising costs.
Nearly two years after the tragic Maui wildfires devastated communities and left thousands homeless, the county’s only food bank has seen an unprecedented spike in funding—an eightfold revenue increase to $77.6 million in fiscal year 2024. Yet beneath this flood of generosity lies a stark reality: a broken federal disaster response system forced local organizations to pick up the slack while hunger quietly expands beyond wildfire survivors into struggling working families. Who Truly Bears the Burden When Federal Aid Is Slow? The Aug. 8, 2023 fires claimed 102 lives and displaced over 12,000 residents. Yet federal agencies like FEMA took...
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