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[[Image:laborharvest.jpg|left|thumb|250px|423 W. Locust. Photo in 2011. ]]DUBUQUE AREA LABOR HARVEST. The Dubuque Area Labor Harvest, a non-profit organization, | [[Image:laborharvest.jpg|left|thumb|250px|423 W. Locust. Photo in 2011. ]]DUBUQUE AREA LABOR HARVEST. The Dubuque Area Labor Harvest, a non-profit organization, was established to provide free meals and food assistance for low income residents in Dubuque. Founded in the 1980s when the city was in the midst of an economic depression and the state's highest unemployment rate of 23% (between 1980 and 1983), the labor harvest was an outgrowth of union-organized food drives for their members. | ||
The food drives were eventually opened to the general public and became a regular event. In 2022 the Labor Harvest gave away boxes of groceries to families in need every second Saturday of the month and served hot breakfast other Saturdays of the month. In one week during August, 2020 the Harvest volunteers served 289 breakfasts. | |||
During the [[PANDEMIC]] the Harvest began deliveries groceries to individual homes and continued to do so every fist and third Saturday of the month. Between twenty to 25 people volunteered for the monthly giveaway with another six to eight working on the weekly hot breakfast. Home deliveries of food occupied the time of between fifteen and twenty volunteers. | |||
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Irvine, Joshua, "Dubuque Area Benefits from Fruits of Labor Harvest," ''Telegraph Herald,'' August 5, 2022, p. 2A | |||
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Revision as of 19:06, 12 August 2022
DUBUQUE AREA LABOR HARVEST. The Dubuque Area Labor Harvest, a non-profit organization, was established to provide free meals and food assistance for low income residents in Dubuque. Founded in the 1980s when the city was in the midst of an economic depression and the state's highest unemployment rate of 23% (between 1980 and 1983), the labor harvest was an outgrowth of union-organized food drives for their members.
The food drives were eventually opened to the general public and became a regular event. In 2022 the Labor Harvest gave away boxes of groceries to families in need every second Saturday of the month and served hot breakfast other Saturdays of the month. In one week during August, 2020 the Harvest volunteers served 289 breakfasts.
During the PANDEMIC the Harvest began deliveries groceries to individual homes and continued to do so every fist and third Saturday of the month. Between twenty to 25 people volunteered for the monthly giveaway with another six to eight working on the weekly hot breakfast. Home deliveries of food occupied the time of between fifteen and twenty volunteers.
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Source:
Irvine, Joshua, "Dubuque Area Benefits from Fruits of Labor Harvest," Telegraph Herald, August 5, 2022, p. 2A