KCUR News
5:15 am
Mon October 27, 2008

Food Pantries Empty While Thrift Stores Thrive

Credit Frank Morris
Karen Haren is standing in the Harvesters warehouse in Kansas City.

Kansas City, MO – The troubled economy is driving thousands of people into food pantries for the first time ever this year. At the same time donations to those pantries are drying up and some have run out of food entirely, even here, in the nation's breadbasket. But while the economic hard times are pummeling food pantries, they're doing great things for another service catering to the poor thrift stores. KCUR's Frank Morris reports.