Hundreds Queue for Donated Food in Hard-Hit Indiana Town

Cars in the hundreds lined up outside an Elkhart, Ind., shopping mall Tuesday as $2.1-million worth of food was shipped in to aid the recession-ravaged city whose plight was recently spotlighted by President Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports.

The president visited Elkhart, which has an 18.3 percent unemployment rate, last month during the debate over his economic stimulus package.

Some 1,600 families picked up boxes of food and basic household supplies. Anti-hunger charity Feed the Children, which arranged the deliveries, plans to ship goods to another 3,600 families in northern Indiana.

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