Food pantries face increased demand as jobs lost

By Gayathri Vaidyanathan Two three-year-old children stood in the line for food vouchers.  They were a little grubby, their blonde curls tangled, their blue eyes wary.  The girl’s flowered blue pajamas were coarse and dirty; the boy fidgeted.  Their father was tall, unshaven; the mother haggard.  The family looked like they’d forgotten how to smile. The mother entered the St. Vincent de Paul parish meeting, where they hand out food vouchers for a local supermarket in Jackson Heights, Queens. She