We’re seeing people who work at banks, for software firms, for marketing firms, and they’re all losing their jobs. Here we are in big, fancy Marin County, but we have people who are standing in line with their eyes wide open, thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe I’m here.’

—Dave Cort, the executive director of the San Geronimo Valley Community Center in Marin County

If one of our richest counties has people signing up for food stamps who have never signed up before, that indicates the depth of this problem with the lack of food. It’s the canary in the coal mine.

—Kathleen DiChiara, executive director of Community FoodBank of New Jersey