
In 2020, One Fair Wage distributed $25 million to make sure restaurant workers had enough to eat during the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, we're starting another fund to make sure service workers don't go hungry after SNAP's critical funding has lapsed.
During the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, as millions of Americans suddenly lost paychecks -- including millions of restaurant workers -- One Fair Wage sprung into action. Often working through the night, we scrambled to set up the One Fair Wage Emergency Fund.
Before the federal government was able to distribute its first "pandemic check," One Fair Wage had raised and distributed millions of dollars. We had hundreds of thousands of applicants to our fund, designed a need-based prioritization system, and distributed around $25 million that we'd raised from the generous support of donors like you.
No single organization, nor even the federal government, were able to completely address the needs that were caused from the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. With 42 million Americans now at risk of going hungry, we face the same impossible task. Service workers use food stamps at double the rate of all other workers. But we will do everything we can to support as many hungry Americans as possible -- the scale of which will be determined by the level of support from donors like you. So, please, if you're able, consider making a donation to One Fair Wage's SNAP Emergency Fund.