As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget proposal, food banks across Ohio could see a significant reduction in state funding. Most of this is due to the loss of a one-time $7.5 million appropriation in the previous budget.

That decrease has food bank organizers worried.

“It’s about 3.4 million Ohioans who live in households that are under that income limit (200% of the federal poverty line),” Joree Novotny, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, told the Ohio Capital Journal.

House Finance Chairman, state Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, told the Capital Journal he did not understand how it is possible that food banks are seeing increased need. He pointed out unemployment in the state is relatively low.

“Food banks are meant to be a supplement,” he told the Capital Journal.

If only it was that simple. Costs continues to rise. Folks right on the edge are stuck between earning too much — and not being able to afford enough. Find ways you can help those in need.