Are middle class Americans queuing for food across the country?

The BBC published this report on New Yorkers queuing for food a couple of days back:

Middle class New Yorkers queuing in cars for upto 5 hours to get free food. Is this common across the US or is this specific to New York? Are these people really so asset rich and cash poor that they can't afford food? Or is there some other incentive at work here that I'm not aware of?

I've never lived in the US, so I really don't know much about the day to day economic realities on the ground.

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