Giving affected by stock market decline

Sunday, September 22, 2002

In Little Rock, Ark., a 75,000-square-foot warehouse that distributes food to 450 food banks is nearly half empty. Corporate food gift cutbacks are to blame, and the donations that do come in are mostly junk food rather than eggs, cheese, canned vegetables and produce.

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