Less to give, more in need: How tariffs are deepening the food crisis in the Tri-Cities – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Less to give, more in need: How tariffs are deepening the food crisis in the Tri-Cities – Tri-Cities Dispatch

People’s Pantry executive director Alice Hale. photo Maryam Mazrooei As a journalist and artist with an Iranian background, I cannot recall a single day of my life untouched by the weight of sanctions or the economic pressures inflicted by American foreign policy, forces that leave their deepest marks on the most vulnerable. Now, in the country I call home, where I volunteer at a food bank, I see those same patterns repeating: rising grocery cos…