Private food banks say they are picking up the slack. America's Second Harvest, the principal nonprofit source for food banks around the country, has double the amount of food it provides in the past years. Even those who say private groups should shoulder more of the burden, agree the current system could do better. States should do everything possible to make certain that those who qualify for food stamps know it and are enrolled if they so choose. That was the intent of the law.
Poor people learn to keep hopes small.
The Poor Cope Alone. Evelyn Nieves, The New York Times. It's all relative. Fortune's Forty Under Forty.