Via Huffington Post

“I was visiting with this family and one of the little boys said he wasn’t going to eat,” said Russell, development director for Forgotten Harvest, a Detroit-based nonprofit that rescues and redistributes fresh food. “He said, ‘Oh, I’m not eating dinner because it’s my brother’s turn tonight. Tomorrow is my night.’”

When, as a country, are we going to acknowledge that poverty is a problem in the US?  When are we going to stop believing in the myth of the welfare queen and recognize that these programs need to be strengthened not dismantled? -Rachel