Source: MSNBC

In this job-starved city where President Barack Obama last month made a public appeal for his economic stimulus plan, hundreds of volunteers "and an agency that specializes in handing out food” worked together Tuesday to feed 5,200 hungry families.

Roughly 300 local volunteers worked with Feed the Children to distribute more than $2.1 million worth of food at Concord Mall as part of the nonprofit relief organization'sFeeding Americans Emergency Caravan.

The caravan of semi-trailers is visiting small cities and towns across America hit hard by the economic crisis. No area in Indiana has been hit harder than Elkhart County, where the jobless rate skyrocketed to 18.3 percent in January.