They want to be invisible. They don't want people knowing about them. And among the food bank recipients, two out of five are children. The Bay Area Food Bank of Mobile, Ala., reported more people working in the area, but at wages too low to cover expenses. Now, it's down to 50 percent.
Food is cheap, especially in a nation blessed with history's most productive farms.
The feds could provide more commodities, helping both the hungry and some badly hurting farmers. Mostly, he thinks, somebody might notice all those people waiting in line outside church basements. Americans have to know that it's a problem. If they knew it was a problem, they'd do more about it. But things are heading in the other direction.