More than ten percent of San Joaquin County is food insecure, food bank officials say, according to county numbers from 2024.
Hansen says the food bank served more than 73,000 of those people.
Yet, Hansen expects there to be long pantry lines at the end of October due to the government shutdown. The food bank relies on 35% of its food from USDA programs.
Over the past three to four months, Hansen said 12 pallets, which is about 30,000 pounds of food, have been cut weekly.
The USDA replied with an automatic response when CBS News Sacramento tried to reach someone for comment.
"It's another hurdle that you jump over," Hansen said. "You never, ever give up. We did it in the pandemic. We did 243 straight days in 2020, never missed a distribution, never closed, never failed to service somebody. We will never stop."
"You just find a way," Hansen said. "You make the extra phone call, you drive an extra truck to Turlock, or Merced, or someplace that you normally wouldn't go to make sure that you can find enough to make sure that you can serve everybody."
Hansen encourages people who want to help the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton to donate at stocktonfoodbank.org. It's a tax-advantageous donation, and $25 can turn into $100 worth of meals.
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