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[ The Civil Wars' <i>Finding North</i> ]

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♪ Draw me a map ♪

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♪ That I can hold ♪

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♪ Lines that tell me where to go ♪

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♪ My head is full ♪

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♪ Of lonely harmonies ♪

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♪ And questions
no one's asking me ♪

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♪ Who's gonna take my hand? ♪

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♪ Show me the way? ♪

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♪ How long will I have to wait ♪

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♪ For someday? ♪

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♪ Well, it's not the sky ♪

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♪ I'm asking for ♪

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♪ I'm just having trouble ♪

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♪ Finding north ♪

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♪ I've gone as far ♪

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♪ As I can go ♪

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♪ Trying to find something ♪

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♪ That feels like ♪

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♪ Home ♪

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♪ Who's gonna take my hand? ♪

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♪ Show me the way? ♪

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♪ How long will I have to wait ♪

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♪ For someday? ♪

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[ The Civil Wars' <i>My Father's Father</i> ]

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ROSIE:
Collbran, Colorado, is really cool,

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and it's mostly where

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all the cowboys
and cowgirls roam.

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We're just country people.

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ADAM APPELHANZ: The town of Collbran
is a quaint, quiet little town

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with that honorable
Code of the West type atmosphere.

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♪ Home ♪

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PASTOR BOB WILSON:
Close-knit.

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Caring.

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- And yet, almost desperate.
- ♪ The leaves have changed ♪

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♪ A time or two ♪

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♪ Since the last time
the train came through ♪

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- Here, food.
- ♪ I got my ticket ♪

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♪ And I'm going to go ♪

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All right, this is my tree house.

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This is my table that I built,

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and this is the carpets
that I found in our shed,

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and so I just put it in here.

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And sometimes I sit here
when I'm, like, sad

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or if I'm angry.

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If I get a bad, um, grade

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in one of my classes
'cause I'm not doing really good.

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DAWN:
Our home is a two-family unit.

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And my daughter lives with us
and her family and my husband.

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[ Dog barks ]

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DAWN:
You're finding out more and more

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that the kids
come back to the parents

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and they live
and that's about how you make it.

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[ Indistinct chatter ]

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TRISH:
I work at The Cattleman's Grill.

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I've never received
government assistance,

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but I went down there...

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[ sighs deeply ]

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And I was gonna try
to get food stamps.

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They turned me away.

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My paycheck is
about $120 every two weeks.

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So it's hard.

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[ Indistinct conversation ]

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DAWN: My husband,
he works for St. Mary's Hospital.

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And I'm working now, too,
so we're over the limit for help.

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We've got seven people
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so you make your food stretch.

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We've been
without vegetables for a while.

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We do run out of milk.

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We eat dry cereal.

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You have to live
the best you can.

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You've got to make things
stretch nowadays.

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It's not easy.

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ROSIE:
Sometimes we run out of food,

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so we try to figure out something.

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Probably ask friends for food.

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We get really hungry,
and our tummies just growl,

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and sometimes
I feel like I'm gonna barf

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'cause it feels bad.

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But I don't really know
what to do.

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WOMAN: [ singing in church ]
♪ You alone are my heart's desire ♪

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♪ And I long to worship You ♪

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WILSON:
The title of the message this morning

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is "Church and Community."

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The church should always be
in the community.

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And I believe what we're doing

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is exactly what Jesus
would have us do,

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is exactly what He's doing
in the world today.

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Jesus was involved
in those around Him.

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Jesus fed 5,000.

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We fed 5,000 here
in the not too distant past.

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Hunger is
an issue in our community.

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One of the ways we found
that the need

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is greater than we thought was,
on Wednesday nights,

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we started preparing a meal
for anyone who wants to come.

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And we had no idea
what to expect.

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[ Indistinct chatter ]

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And now we have
between 80 and 120

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that we'll feed a hot meal
to every Wednesday.

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So it is a bigger problem
that we're aware of.

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[ Indistinct chatter ]

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JANET POPPENDIECK: I think
when people hear the term "hunger,"

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they still imagine a skinny,
undernourished human being.

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They see the pictures of famine victims
from sub-Saharan Africa.

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That's the image
that we carry around.

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RAJ PATEL:
If you're comparing hunger in America

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to hunger
of the most grinding kind,

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then no, I mean,
people are not dying of hunger

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in the same way here
that they are in Africa.

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But that's about the best
that you can say.

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It's a problem that people
are ashamed of acknowledging.

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Our own government is ashamed
of acknowledging it

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from my point of view.

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And you just kind of, you know,

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you're--We're in denial
about it, I think.

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No.

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- [ Smooches ]
- Aww, thank you.

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BARBIE IZQUIERDO:
Hunger is right here in the United States.

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It could be right next door,

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and you would never know

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because people
are too afraid to talk about it.

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[ Children chattering ]

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- BARBIE: Hold on tight.
- AIDEN: Oh, boom.

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Bella, watch your shoe.

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Being where I'm from,
there's so many expectations

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of these girls just have kids,
drop out, do drugs.

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You know, things like that.
I don't want to be that person.

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Since August, I lost my job,

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I had to get on public assistance

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to be able to have some type of income
coming into the house.

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What's that?

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- AIDEN: Train.
- BARBIE: A train coming.

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My dream is to go to college.

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If I go to school,
it's an investment in my future,

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but at the same time,
I'm struggling so much every day

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to be able to even feed
my kids every day.

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- Uh-oh.
- [ gasps ] Wow.

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BARBIE: So it's really hard
to make that decision now.

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Like, I can't tell my kids,

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"Okay, I'm going to school,

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"so in two years,
we're gonna be fine."

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I can't tell them,
"Yeah, I'll make sure

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"you guys eat in two years."

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LALANI: Aiden, come eat.

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- Eat it all.
- No.

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BARBIE:
Look, you could pick it up.

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All my life, I know what it's like
to eat Oodles of Noodles,

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seven days a week,
three, four times a day,

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'cause it's all we had
and cans of Chef Boyardee.

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When I had my children,

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I said I would never,
ever let them taste it

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just because that was
my breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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But life brings you
situations and circumstances,

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and it's up to you to be able
to deal with it

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and find a way to get through it.

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A survey from
the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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reports that one in six Americans

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say they don't have
enough to eat.

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FEMALE REPORTER: Last year,
nearly 30% of U.S. families

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were classified as "food insecure."

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PATEL:
Food insecurity is this idea

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that you don't know where
your next meal is coming from.

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You have no idea
how you're going to manage

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to find that food
or afford that food.

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And when 50 million Americans
don't have that power,

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That's a very dark indication
indeed of where we are.

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[ Blues guitar music ]

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Step up on there.
This will make a noise.

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Step up on the table right there.

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I'll be with you in just a second.

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- What grade you in?
- Second.

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Second?
You're in the second grade?

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- How old are you?
- I'm gonna be eight.

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Fixing to be eight.

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All right,
and you've got asthma?

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Okay, do you ever have problems
with shortness of breath

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when you're outside playing
or anything?

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I have to stop playing
and take a deep breath.

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DOCTOR: Okay. What did you eat
for breakfast this morning?

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I didn't eat.

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You didn't eat breakfast
this morning? Okay.

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When you get home
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do you eat a snack?
What do you eat?

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- Chips.
- Chips? What else, baby?

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What do you drink?

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- Pop.
- Pop? Okay.

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DOCTOR: Do you have any other snacks
besides chips you could eat?

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- Huh?
- Cookies.

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- Kisses?
- Cookies.

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DOCTOR: Cookies.
Cookies and chips, okay.

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Maybe you
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buying you some--some carrots
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and maybe some apples.

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You could slice some apples up.
That'd be good, hmm?

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PATEL: A lot of people think
there is a yawning gap

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between hunger on the one hand
and obesity on the other.

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In fact, they're neighbors.

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And the reason
that they happen often

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in the same time
and often in the same family

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and the same person

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is because they're both signs

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of having insufficient funds
to be able to command

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food that you need to stay healthy.

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[ Gentle music ]

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KIMBERLY:
Mostly, I really shop for--

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I look around
and see what's the cheapest.

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You have--Fruit are very high.

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And you got chips that's 35¢ a bag.

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So I say, "Okay,
I'm not gonna get the fruit.

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"I'm gonna get some chips."

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But if the fruit on sale,
I'll leave the chips and get the fruit.

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She's overweight for her age.

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She's very overweight for her age.

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So I have to sort of watch,
and that bothers me.

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Tremon, do you want blue juice
or cranberry juice?

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TREMONICA: Blue juice.

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MARION NESTLE:
If you look at what has happened

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to the relative price
of fresh fruits and vegetables,

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it's gone up by 40% since 1980
when the obesity epidemic first began.

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[ The Civil Wars' <i>Long Time Gone</i> ]

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In contrast, the relative price
of processed foods

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has gone down by about 40%.

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So if you have only a limited amount
of money to spend,

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you're going to spend it
on the cheapest calories you can get.

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And that's going
to be processed foods.

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This has to do
with our farm policy

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and what we subsidize
and what we don't.

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♪ Look out, Ma, look out, Pa ♪

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♪ Look at that horizon ♪

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♪ Something's out there,
kicking up dust ♪

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♪ Storm is coming fast ♪

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KEN COOK:
The subsidy system that we now have

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actually started back in the 1930s
during the Great Depression.

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Farmers were the first to be hit hard
when the economy went bad.

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There was a lot of pressure to put

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some sort of
government assistance forward

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to help them get a decent price
at harvest time for their crops.

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The programs
in the Great Depression,

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of course,
were emergency programs.

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The idea was, if we could,
on a temporary basis,

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help support
the prices of farm products,

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that we'd get
through this difficult period.

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And then we would let
the market take over,

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except we never let
the market take over.

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♪ It's been a long time coming ♪

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COOK: In the 1930s and '40s
and into the '50s,

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and even a little bit beyond that,

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I think you could make the case
that it really was family farmers

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who were mostly benefiting
from these programs.

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But as the agricultural sector
became more concentrated

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in terms of ownership
of the land resources,

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more and more
of these operations

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came to resemble agribusinesses

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and not family farming operations.

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♪ It's been ♪

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♪ A long time coming ♪

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♪ It's been ♪

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♪ A long time ♪

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The U.S. Department
of Agriculture, USDA,

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Is one of the most diverse
and complex agencies

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in the entire federal government.

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It does everything
from international food trade

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to the Forest Service,
to food safety,

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to animal protection,

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to, of course, farming programs,
and food and nutrition programs.

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PATEL:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture

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has increasingly become the domain

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of support for mega-farms
and mega-farming corporations.

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Most of that subsidy money,
about 70% of it,

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has gone just
to 10% of those beneficiaries.

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The biggest,
largest, best capitalized farms,

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they're hauling
in this taxpayer money now.

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PATEL: And so there
is this weird paradox

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where welfare
for the poor is scorned,

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but corporate welfare,
as it's known,

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is sort of heartily endorsed.

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NESTLE: We subsidize
the basic ingredients in processed foods.

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We do not subsidize fruits,
vegetables, and whole grains,

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because the producers tend
to be small producers.

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They don't have
the kind of political clout

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that the big commodity producers
of corn and soybeans

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and wheat
that gets processed do.

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POPPENDIECK: These subsidies
made products very cheap,

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and therefore made it profitable
for the food industry

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to invest in the infrastructure

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for processing those products
into the packaged goods

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that we see on every counter,
in every corner store,

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in every vending machine,

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that are really ubiquitous now
and all around us.

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REE: Slicin' onions, gets you--
so you know that.

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[ Chuckles ]

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Just try to be careful.

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I'm Ree. I have four boys,

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and I live in Jonestown, Mississippi.

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I've been living
in Jonestown all my life.

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I'm in the kitchen. [ laughs ]

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Look, that's funny to her. [ laughs ]

300
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[ Oil sizzling ]

301
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Raw onion, grilled onion.

302
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What I do for work is I cook.

303
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I work the cash register,
I do the dishes.

304
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Mainly, I just pitch in,
you know, and help.

305
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We have stores in Jonestown.

306
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We have about
three grocery stores,

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but it's hard in getting
some of the things

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like, when you want fruits,
there's no store sell fruits.

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Maybe one store will have
a few bananas.

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They have vegetables,
but it's in a can.

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I love fresh vegetables and fruit.

312
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It's very frustrating
they don't have it here.

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DR. ALFIO RAUSA:
There's this thing called a food desert.

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So out in the county,
you have these mom and pop shops.

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And they don't have
fruits and veggies.

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There are several issues.
Agriculture's a big business.

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So I get this big 18-wheeler,
and I'm delivering food.

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I'll deliver it to Walmart,
and I'll deliver it to Kroger,

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and these others chains,

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but I can't afford to take
my 18-wheeler

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and go through
these back roads.

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They're off the beaten path.

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So you just don't fit our model,
you know.

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Maximum delivery, minimum cost.

325
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And so we're consuming
what's available to us.

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Chips and ice cream
and cakes.

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They have that here.

328
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They have lots and lots
of stuff like that here.

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And so,
that's why I go to Clarksdale

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sometimes grocery shopping,
or Batesville,

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about a 45-minute drive.

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Those that doesn't
have transportation, it's hard.

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[ Cash register bell ringing ]

334
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[ Cash register bell rings ]

335
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[ Scanner beeps ]

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BARBIE: All right, hon,
help Mommy cook.

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Mommy cook.

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LALANI: I want to help you
to make spaghetti.

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BARBIE:
Okay. Here you go.

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This one goes on the table.

341
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[ Bella chattering ]

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BARBIE: The assistance programs
in the United States

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are very hard to qualify for.

344
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It's, like, either you're starving
or you don't get any help.

345
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But what defines starving?

346
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Like, if you don't eat for a day,
are you starving?

347
00:22:25,475 --> 00:22:26,685
In their eyes, no.

348
00:22:26,852 --> 00:22:29,354
But in your eyes
and the way you feel, of course.

349
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- [ Bella giggles ]
- Okay.

350
00:22:33,525 --> 00:22:34,818
- [ laughs ]
- Good job.

351
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AIDEN:
Mom, can I do the next one?

352
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BARBIE:
Mm-hmm. Okay.

353
00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:41,199
Put that in the water.

354
00:22:41,366 --> 00:22:43,201
But do we gotta break it?

355
00:22:43,368 --> 00:22:44,786
No. You don't gotta break it.

356
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AIDEN:
It goes in the water.

357
00:22:46,913 --> 00:22:48,582
BARBIE:
It was Aiden's turn to help, too.

358
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Put that in there.

359
00:22:51,501 --> 00:22:53,628
Okay, that was a bad idea.

360
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BARBIE:
I do get food stamps now,

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but they last about three weeks
out of the month.

362
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And for that last week,
I'm just going crazy.

363
00:23:05,223 --> 00:23:06,892
- [ Spoon clanging ]
- Is it good?

364
00:23:07,058 --> 00:23:08,101
Mm-hmm.

365
00:23:08,268 --> 00:23:09,978
Put them in there.

366
00:23:10,145 --> 00:23:12,939
- The ones that are cut.
- I'm making.

367
00:23:13,106 --> 00:23:15,275
JAMES McGOVERN: I lived
on a food stamp diet for a week

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along with Jo Ann Emerson
from Missouri.

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We did so because we thought

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that the food stamp benefit
was inadequate.

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Most of my colleagues
had no idea

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that the average food stamp benefit
was $3.00 a day.

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I had my budget,
and I went to a supermarket.

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It took me an awful long time

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00:23:34,502 --> 00:23:36,338
because you have
to add up every penny.

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And it has to last you for a week.

377
00:23:38,673 --> 00:23:41,259
And so I did it,
and I will tell you,

378
00:23:41,426 --> 00:23:44,012
I was tired, I was cranky,

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'cause I couldn't drink coffee,
'cause coffee was too expensive.

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00:23:46,348 --> 00:23:50,518
There are people who are living
on that food stamp allocation.

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And you really can't.

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For us, it was an exercise
that ended in a week.

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For millions of other people
in this country,

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that's their way of life.

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00:24:00,904 --> 00:24:03,782
Every day is a struggle just to eat.

386
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$39.37.

387
00:24:16,586 --> 00:24:17,796
MAN: Um...

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00:24:20,048 --> 00:24:22,425
Would you take 35?

389
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You're gonna have to put
something back.

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00:24:25,470 --> 00:24:28,515
BRIDGES: Back in the '80s,
when I formed the End Hunger Network,

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we wanted to show what it was like
to live in America and, you know,

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be holding down three jobs
and, you know,

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you got a couple of kids
and maybe a medical problem,

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and you've gotta put food
on the table,

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00:24:41,403 --> 00:24:42,612
keep a roof on your head,
and it's--

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00:24:42,779 --> 00:24:44,572
It's really a daunting task.

397
00:24:44,739 --> 00:24:47,450
And we wanted to make
a film about that.

398
00:24:47,617 --> 00:24:51,371
And it was made,
you know, 10, 12 years ago,

399
00:24:51,538 --> 00:24:54,207
and it doesn't seem
out of date at all.

400
00:24:54,374 --> 00:24:55,750
It seems--

401
00:24:55,917 --> 00:24:57,961
It seems just as fresh
as the day we made it.

402
00:24:58,128 --> 00:25:00,296
The problem is getting--
is getting worse.

403
00:25:00,463 --> 00:25:02,966
The policy and my own feeling
in this administration

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00:25:03,133 --> 00:25:06,344
is that if there is one person
in this country hungry,

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00:25:06,511 --> 00:25:08,346
that is one too many.

406
00:25:08,513 --> 00:25:11,641
And for those who cannot do
for themselves,

407
00:25:11,808 --> 00:25:13,685
society has to respond.

408
00:25:13,852 --> 00:25:17,439
In this era
of unprecedented prosperity,

409
00:25:17,605 --> 00:25:20,692
we still have some work
of our own to do.

410
00:25:20,859 --> 00:25:22,610
We hear the call
to take on the challenges

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of hunger and poverty
and disease.

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00:25:25,321 --> 00:25:27,991
And that is precisely
what America is doing.

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00:25:28,158 --> 00:25:29,409
We are Americans.

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00:25:29,576 --> 00:25:31,494
We are tougher
than the times we live in,

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00:25:31,661 --> 00:25:34,164
and we are bigger
than our politics have been,

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00:25:34,330 --> 00:25:37,459
so let's meet the moment,
let's get to work,

417
00:25:37,625 --> 00:25:39,169
and let's show the world once again

418
00:25:39,335 --> 00:25:42,213
why the United States of America
remains the greatest nation on Earth.

419
00:25:42,380 --> 00:25:46,217
[ Applause ]

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00:26:00,315 --> 00:26:01,858
We've got 44 million Americans

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00:26:02,025 --> 00:26:04,569
on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance program,

422
00:26:04,736 --> 00:26:07,072
what we used to call
food stamps.

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00:26:08,573 --> 00:26:11,201
One out of every two kids
in the United States

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at some point in their childhood
will be on food assistance.

425
00:26:26,091 --> 00:26:28,051
You better watch it.

426
00:26:28,218 --> 00:26:29,969
[ Bell jingles ]

427
00:26:30,136 --> 00:26:31,346
BARBIE: Come on.

428
00:26:31,513 --> 00:26:34,599
[ Kids shouting ]

429
00:26:37,977 --> 00:26:39,813
Chips right here, Mommy.

430
00:26:48,029 --> 00:26:51,407
- Can I have a cheeseburger?
- Huh?

431
00:26:51,574 --> 00:26:52,534
No.

432
00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:54,661
Mom, I need a doughnut.

433
00:26:54,828 --> 00:26:56,329
BARBIE:
No, you got chips in your hand.

434
00:26:56,496 --> 00:26:58,998
- I want a doughnut.
- You don't need doughnuts.

435
00:26:59,833 --> 00:27:01,876
- [ Crying ]
- Aiden.

436
00:27:02,043 --> 00:27:04,129
I want a doughnut!

437
00:27:06,339 --> 00:27:08,800
[ Crying ]

438
00:27:08,967 --> 00:27:13,429
BARBIE: Aiden's first year of life
was a period of a lot of struggle.

439
00:27:15,306 --> 00:27:18,268
At that time,
I was making $9.00 an hour.

440
00:27:18,434 --> 00:27:21,354
Buying food
was really an obstacle for me.

441
00:27:21,521 --> 00:27:23,231
So I applied for food stamps,

442
00:27:23,398 --> 00:27:25,275
which means
I was in the welfare office

443
00:27:25,441 --> 00:27:28,611
from 8:00 in the morning
to 4:30 in the afternoon,

444
00:27:28,778 --> 00:27:32,657
to then be told that
I was $2.00 over the income limit.

445
00:27:32,824 --> 00:27:35,118
So because I was
$2.00 over the income limit,

446
00:27:35,285 --> 00:27:38,788
I didn't--I was not eligible
for even a dollar in food stamps.

447
00:27:38,955 --> 00:27:40,415
Watch.

448
00:27:40,582 --> 00:27:43,501
So, you know, I didn't have
what they needed,

449
00:27:43,668 --> 00:27:46,462
or there just wasn't
any more food.

450
00:27:46,629 --> 00:27:50,633
And I feel like
it affected Aiden a lot.

451
00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:52,969
[ Door closes ]

452
00:27:54,137 --> 00:27:55,597
- Mom.
- Yes?

453
00:27:55,763 --> 00:27:57,765
Here, it's--[ mumbling ]

454
00:27:57,932 --> 00:27:59,517
- My Elmo.
- Yeah.

455
00:27:59,684 --> 00:28:01,811
- Thank you.
- I want a hug.

456
00:28:01,978 --> 00:28:04,606
- Huh?
- [ mumbles ]

457
00:28:04,772 --> 00:28:07,567
[ Continues mumbling ]

458
00:28:07,734 --> 00:28:09,485
What happened?

459
00:28:09,652 --> 00:28:12,197
- House.
- What happened with the house?

460
00:28:12,363 --> 00:28:16,284
[ Mumbling ]

461
00:28:16,451 --> 00:28:17,994
What happened? Mommy room?

462
00:28:18,161 --> 00:28:22,498
BARBIE: Aiden--he was constantly
in and out of the hospital.

463
00:28:22,665 --> 00:28:26,628
He was diagnosed with G6PD,
which is an immune deficiency.

464
00:28:26,794 --> 00:28:29,589
He has hearing problems,
and earlier this month,

465
00:28:29,756 --> 00:28:32,300
he was diagnosed with speech delay.

466
00:28:32,467 --> 00:28:34,385
[ Mumbling ]

467
00:28:34,552 --> 00:28:36,596
DR. MARIANA CHILTON:
Any kind of nutritional deprivation,

468
00:28:36,763 --> 00:28:38,932
however short that it could be,

469
00:28:39,098 --> 00:28:40,725
in those first three years of life

470
00:28:40,892 --> 00:28:44,479
can have lifelong
consequences for a child.

471
00:28:44,646 --> 00:28:47,565
[ Aiden crying incoherently ]

472
00:28:47,732 --> 00:28:50,109
CHILTON: It affects
their cognitive development,

473
00:28:50,276 --> 00:28:53,154
their ability to get along with others.

474
00:28:53,321 --> 00:28:55,573
No!

475
00:28:55,740 --> 00:28:57,992
DOCTOR: Let's shine
our flashlight here and look.

476
00:28:58,159 --> 00:29:01,246
They could be constantly sick,
constantly getting infections,

477
00:29:01,412 --> 00:29:03,248
because they're not well nourished.

478
00:29:03,414 --> 00:29:04,832
DOCTOR:
Do you know, has he had any colds?

479
00:29:04,999 --> 00:29:06,584
He's actually a little sick right now.

480
00:29:06,751 --> 00:29:07,669
- Okay.
- Yeah.

481
00:29:07,835 --> 00:29:10,630
CHILTON: It can truncate
a child's developmental potential.

482
00:29:10,797 --> 00:29:13,174
Whether or not it affects
their growth outcomes,

483
00:29:13,341 --> 00:29:16,177
sort of their physical--
their stature and their weight,

484
00:29:16,344 --> 00:29:18,972
it affects their brain
at a much deeper level.

485
00:29:22,058 --> 00:29:24,102
[ Children chattering ]

486
00:29:31,776 --> 00:29:35,613
Okay, mine is about
this, um, goddess or queen.

487
00:29:35,780 --> 00:29:40,285
Her husband died,
and he gave half of his kingdom

488
00:29:40,451 --> 00:29:43,121
to the Romans and...

489
00:29:43,288 --> 00:29:45,832
LESLIE NICHOLS: Hunger definitely
impacts my classroom.

490
00:29:47,875 --> 00:29:50,378
I have had students
come to me upset,

491
00:29:50,545 --> 00:29:54,340
and it's definitely a huge issue
in our small community.

492
00:29:54,507 --> 00:29:56,301
We are going to spend
a little bit of time

493
00:29:56,467 --> 00:29:59,304
talking about
how to use context clues

494
00:29:59,470 --> 00:30:04,642
to help us when we find words
in the textbooks that we're reading.

495
00:30:04,809 --> 00:30:06,936
One student in particular, Rosie,

496
00:30:07,103 --> 00:30:09,272
I just really felt
that she wasn't really

497
00:30:09,439 --> 00:30:10,940
applying herself in the classroom,

498
00:30:11,107 --> 00:30:13,568
and I couldn't figure out
where that attitude was coming from.

499
00:30:14,652 --> 00:30:17,739
I felt that she just
really didn't care about what

500
00:30:17,905 --> 00:30:20,575
I wanted her to learn or
that school was that important,

501
00:30:20,742 --> 00:30:23,619
and what I realized
when I brought her in one day was

502
00:30:23,786 --> 00:30:25,705
the main issue was
that she was hungry.

503
00:30:26,914 --> 00:30:28,624
ROSIE: I struggle a lot.

504
00:30:28,791 --> 00:30:31,753
And most of the time, it's because
my stomach is really hurting.

505
00:30:31,919 --> 00:30:33,171
NICHOLS:
So let's take a look.

506
00:30:33,338 --> 00:30:34,964
ROSIE: And my teacher tells me
to get focused,

507
00:30:35,131 --> 00:30:38,301
and she told me to write "focus"
on one of those stickers.

508
00:30:38,468 --> 00:30:39,344
And every time I look at it,

509
00:30:39,510 --> 00:30:41,346
I'm, like, "Oh, I'm supposed
to be focusing."

510
00:30:42,472 --> 00:30:45,641
I start yawning,
and then I zone out.

511
00:30:45,808 --> 00:30:47,685
And I'm just looking
at the teacher,

512
00:30:47,852 --> 00:30:51,481
and I look at her,
and all I think about is food.

513
00:30:51,647 --> 00:30:54,567
So I have these little visions
in my eyes.

514
00:30:54,734 --> 00:30:57,528
NICHOLS: You're still
gonna use the same skills.

515
00:30:57,695 --> 00:30:59,197
ROSIE: Sometimes
when I look at her,

516
00:30:59,364 --> 00:31:02,283
I vision her as a banana,
so she goes like a banana.

517
00:31:02,450 --> 00:31:05,370
And everybody in the class
is like apples or oranges.

518
00:31:05,536 --> 00:31:08,664
And then I'm, like, "Oh, great."

519
00:31:08,831 --> 00:31:11,334
NICHOLS: What were the two you were
trying to narrow it down to?

520
00:31:11,501 --> 00:31:12,668
- "A" and "B."
- "A" and "B."

521
00:31:12,835 --> 00:31:14,545
And why were you thinking "A"?

522
00:31:14,712 --> 00:31:18,132
Um--Me, um--

523
00:31:18,299 --> 00:31:21,052
DR. J. LARRY BROWN:
We are tying the arms

524
00:31:21,219 --> 00:31:25,640
behind the backs of children
as they go into public schools.

525
00:31:25,807 --> 00:31:29,185
We're making it
so that we spend money for teachers

526
00:31:29,352 --> 00:31:33,523
and that we deliver to them
a lot of children who can't learn.

527
00:31:33,689 --> 00:31:36,234
The lost potential--
Some of those kids

528
00:31:36,401 --> 00:31:39,695
could potentially be
a great scientist

529
00:31:39,862 --> 00:31:42,865
or go on to be leaders
in our armed forces,

530
00:31:43,032 --> 00:31:47,078
but the impact that hunger has
messes everything up.

531
00:31:47,245 --> 00:31:50,665
And as a result of that,
we're weakening our nation.

532
00:31:57,255 --> 00:31:58,631
TOM COLICCHIO:
Food was really important growing up,

533
00:31:58,798 --> 00:32:00,007
especially around holidays.

534
00:32:00,174 --> 00:32:01,968
We had to be home
for dinner every night.

535
00:32:04,554 --> 00:32:06,347
My mother was
the typical Italian mother

536
00:32:06,514 --> 00:32:09,308
who would not sit down
unless everybody was served.

537
00:32:09,475 --> 00:32:12,311
Um, and I think that was, you know,

538
00:32:12,478 --> 00:32:14,147
her way of showing
how much she loved her family.

539
00:32:16,607 --> 00:32:17,900
I was in high school at the time.

540
00:32:18,067 --> 00:32:20,069
My mother decided
to take a job

541
00:32:20,236 --> 00:32:23,364
managing a school cafeteria
at Elizabeth where we grew up.

542
00:32:24,866 --> 00:32:26,784
Years later, my brother and I,
we tried to get her to retire.

543
00:32:26,951 --> 00:32:29,996
And she sat down and she said,
"You know, I'm not ready to retire yet."

544
00:32:30,163 --> 00:32:31,205
I said, "Why?"

545
00:32:31,372 --> 00:32:34,041
She said, "You know, these kids

546
00:32:34,208 --> 00:32:36,127
"that come into my lunchroom
for breakfast and lunch,

547
00:32:36,294 --> 00:32:38,713
"I know this is the only thing
they're eating all day."

548
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,091
[ dramatic music ]

549
00:32:42,258 --> 00:32:45,261
For your elimination challenge,
you'll be feeding students

550
00:32:45,428 --> 00:32:47,722
using the same restrictive budget

551
00:32:47,889 --> 00:32:53,060
that our public schools have:
$2.68 per child.

552
00:32:53,227 --> 00:32:55,897
Childhood nutrition has become
a huge health crisis in this country.

553
00:32:56,063 --> 00:32:58,608
And in this challenge,
we were looking at various things.

554
00:32:58,774 --> 00:33:00,860
Part of it to get kids
to eat vegetables and stuff

555
00:33:01,027 --> 00:33:02,278
and whether or not you were
cooking food

556
00:33:02,445 --> 00:33:04,155
that was appropriate
for a school lunch.

557
00:33:04,322 --> 00:33:07,867
I had wanted to do a healthy dessert
that incorporated fruits,

558
00:33:08,034 --> 00:33:10,411
but that was not possible
within our budget.

559
00:33:10,578 --> 00:33:12,622
The point was that you guys
would get tripped up

560
00:33:12,788 --> 00:33:14,582
because that's the problem
that the country has.

561
00:33:14,749 --> 00:33:16,626
Did you find that
you had to add more sugar

562
00:33:16,792 --> 00:33:18,294
because the bananas were starchy?

563
00:33:18,461 --> 00:33:22,882
I believe there was a total
of about two pounds of sugar.

564
00:33:24,717 --> 00:33:26,135
POPPENDIECK:
What's served in the schools

565
00:33:26,302 --> 00:33:28,763
is very much a function
of the kind of investment

566
00:33:28,930 --> 00:33:30,181
we've been willing to make.

567
00:33:30,348 --> 00:33:32,600
If you figure that
the federal government

568
00:33:32,767 --> 00:33:37,563
is reimbursing schools
$2.68 for a meal that's served free,

569
00:33:37,730 --> 00:33:42,485
and you take out the labor cost
and the administrative cost

570
00:33:42,652 --> 00:33:44,612
and cost for gas and electricity

571
00:33:44,779 --> 00:33:47,198
and custodial services
and what have you,

572
00:33:47,365 --> 00:33:49,909
it really doesn't leave
a lot for food.

573
00:33:50,076 --> 00:33:52,578
Most schools report that
they have between

574
00:33:52,745 --> 00:33:56,207
90¢ and a dollar
to actually spend on food.

575
00:33:56,374 --> 00:34:00,294
ANN COOPER: We're spending less
than a dollar, okay? On lunch.

576
00:34:00,461 --> 00:34:02,046
Now I don't know about you,

577
00:34:02,213 --> 00:34:04,257
but I go to Starbucks and Peet's
and places like that,

578
00:34:04,423 --> 00:34:07,426
and a Venti latte
in San Francisco is $5.00.

579
00:34:07,593 --> 00:34:09,345
One gourmet coffee--

580
00:34:09,512 --> 00:34:12,682
One--is more--
We spend more on

581
00:34:12,848 --> 00:34:19,063
than we are spending to feed
kids for an entire week in our schools.

582
00:34:20,731 --> 00:34:23,234
COLICCHIO: The dollars that
are being used for reimbursement

583
00:34:23,401 --> 00:34:25,111
haven't changed since 1973.

584
00:34:26,279 --> 00:34:28,864
We need to get
better nutritious foods in school.

585
00:34:29,031 --> 00:34:30,908
And the only way to do that
is by increasing

586
00:34:31,075 --> 00:34:31,909
the amount of the reimbursement.

587
00:34:32,076 --> 00:34:33,661
[ Gavel pounds ]

588
00:34:33,828 --> 00:34:35,997
CONGRESSMAN: The Committee
on Education and Labor will come to order.

589
00:34:36,163 --> 00:34:37,373
Good morning to everyone.

590
00:34:37,540 --> 00:34:41,335
This morning, we'll discuss
a new bipartisan child nutrition legislation

591
00:34:41,502 --> 00:34:43,337
we introduced earlier
this month to address

592
00:34:43,504 --> 00:34:46,048
critical health and economic
needs in this country.

593
00:34:53,723 --> 00:34:56,392
As thinking adults,
as fellow parents,

594
00:34:56,559 --> 00:34:59,979
this is an egregious abdication
of our responsibility towards kids.

595
00:35:00,146 --> 00:35:01,856
Let's fund school programs
at a spending level

596
00:35:02,023 --> 00:35:03,899
that significantly raises
the quality and variety

597
00:35:04,066 --> 00:35:05,192
of what schools can afford.

598
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,905
TOM VILSACK: A country as strong,
as rich, as powerful as ours,

599
00:35:10,072 --> 00:35:12,325
and yet we have youngsters
who are hungry?

600
00:35:12,491 --> 00:35:14,869
It's one of the reasons
why Harry Truman in 1946

601
00:35:15,036 --> 00:35:16,245
established the school lunch program,

602
00:35:16,412 --> 00:35:20,374
because he recognized that a country
was only as strong as its youth.

603
00:35:20,541 --> 00:35:24,211
Only 25% of youngsters
in America today,

604
00:35:24,378 --> 00:35:28,132
ages 19 to 24,
are fit for military service.

605
00:35:28,299 --> 00:35:30,468
And one of
the principle reasons for that

606
00:35:30,635 --> 00:35:32,637
is that too many
of our youngsters are overweight.

607
00:35:33,721 --> 00:35:37,350
The Institute of Medicine did a study
of the nutritional value

608
00:35:37,516 --> 00:35:38,893
of the meals
that we are currently serving

609
00:35:39,060 --> 00:35:40,311
to our children and found

610
00:35:40,478 --> 00:35:41,896
that there was too much fat,
too much sugar,

611
00:35:42,063 --> 00:35:44,732
too much sodium, not enough fruits,
not enough vegetables.

612
00:35:44,899 --> 00:35:48,027
There is obviously room
for improvement.

613
00:35:48,194 --> 00:35:49,153
And that's why I'm here today

614
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,739
to encourage this committee
and this Congress

615
00:35:51,906 --> 00:35:54,617
to take action now, not to delay.

616
00:35:54,784 --> 00:35:57,036
There are concerns
on both sides of the aisle

617
00:35:57,203 --> 00:35:58,579
by many members of Congress,

618
00:35:58,746 --> 00:36:00,122
and I think by the American people,

619
00:36:00,289 --> 00:36:03,376
that we don't have enough money
to do everything we want to do.

620
00:36:03,542 --> 00:36:06,128
When it comes
to domestic issues,

621
00:36:06,295 --> 00:36:08,422
the health and education
of our nation's children,

622
00:36:08,589 --> 00:36:10,716
I think is one of
our highest priorities.

623
00:36:10,883 --> 00:36:13,844
If we don't change the direction
we're heading,

624
00:36:14,011 --> 00:36:16,972
this generation will be the first
to live sicker and die younger

625
00:36:17,139 --> 00:36:18,432
than their parents' generation.

626
00:36:19,558 --> 00:36:20,559
Check it out.

627
00:36:20,726 --> 00:36:22,937
I want to see
how tall you are, okay?

628
00:36:23,104 --> 00:36:25,398
- [ Oxygen hissing ]
- Okay.

629
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,150
Thank you. High five.

630
00:36:28,317 --> 00:36:30,027
High five.

631
00:36:30,194 --> 00:36:31,654
Okay, since March of last year,

632
00:36:31,821 --> 00:36:34,073
did you ever eat less than
you felt that you should

633
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:35,741
because there wasn't
enough money to buy food?

634
00:36:35,908 --> 00:36:37,034
Yes.

635
00:36:37,201 --> 00:36:38,536
Since March of last year

636
00:36:38,703 --> 00:36:40,413
did you ever cut the size
of your meals

637
00:36:40,579 --> 00:36:43,040
or skip meals because there
wasn't enough money for food?

638
00:36:43,207 --> 00:36:44,917
- Yeah.
- Okay.

639
00:36:45,084 --> 00:36:46,419
CHILTON:
How often did this happen?

640
00:36:46,585 --> 00:36:49,088
- It happens quite a lot.
- Okay.

641
00:36:50,423 --> 00:36:52,800
BOY: Okay, okay, okay.

642
00:36:52,967 --> 00:36:54,635
CHILTON:
I was really frustrated because I felt

643
00:36:54,802 --> 00:36:57,388
like anyone can see how touching
those interviews are

644
00:36:57,555 --> 00:36:59,098
in the emergency room,

645
00:36:59,265 --> 00:37:01,350
A mother when she starts to cry

646
00:37:01,517 --> 00:37:04,395
'cause she's working,
trying hard to take care of her kids,

647
00:37:04,562 --> 00:37:06,564
she's scared for the health
of her child.

648
00:37:06,731 --> 00:37:10,234
We see that on a daily basis
in the emergency room.

649
00:37:11,068 --> 00:37:12,903
But then I'd go to Congress,

650
00:37:13,070 --> 00:37:14,947
and I would announce the numbers

651
00:37:15,114 --> 00:37:16,991
and pronounce how important
food stamps are.

652
00:37:17,158 --> 00:37:20,703
And I just felt like the legislators there
were not really listening,

653
00:37:20,870 --> 00:37:22,204
that they could not relate.

654
00:37:22,371 --> 00:37:24,540
I felt like
it's time for me to be quiet

655
00:37:24,707 --> 00:37:28,669
and give the power
of framing the issue

656
00:37:28,836 --> 00:37:30,713
of food insecurity and hunger

657
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,466
to the people who are
experiencing hunger themselves.

658
00:37:33,632 --> 00:37:35,593
Everybody say, "Washington!"

659
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,179
ALL: Washington!

660
00:37:38,345 --> 00:37:41,140
[ Indistinct chatter ]

661
00:37:53,068 --> 00:37:54,361
CHILTON: Here's the plan.

662
00:37:54,528 --> 00:37:58,449
At 11:30,
the reception at the Senate.

663
00:37:58,616 --> 00:38:00,993
Senator Casey will speak,
I will speak,

664
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,370
Tiana will speak,
Barbie will speak.

665
00:38:03,537 --> 00:38:05,623
And every time that you have
an opportunity,

666
00:38:05,790 --> 00:38:08,876
give your ideas for change,
for what you need

667
00:38:09,043 --> 00:38:12,421
for the success and healthy life
of your kids, okay?

668
00:38:12,588 --> 00:38:14,757
These guys are the ones
who make it happen.

669
00:38:30,648 --> 00:38:32,358
BARBIE: I was the first mother
in Witnesses to Hunger,

670
00:38:32,525 --> 00:38:35,903
and I didn't think anyone
would take us seriously.

671
00:38:36,070 --> 00:38:38,030
But I am here to let everyone know

672
00:38:38,197 --> 00:38:40,157
that just because we live
where we live,

673
00:38:40,324 --> 00:38:41,408
and come from
where we come from,

674
00:38:41,575 --> 00:38:43,369
doesn't mean that we're not smart.

675
00:38:43,536 --> 00:38:45,371
It doesn't mean we don't
have potential.

676
00:38:45,538 --> 00:38:48,249
It doesn't mean that we not--
We do not want education,

677
00:38:48,415 --> 00:38:50,042
doesn't mean that we want
to depend on welfare

678
00:38:50,209 --> 00:38:51,919
for the rest of our lives.

679
00:38:52,086 --> 00:38:55,172
I want the same hopes
and dreams as everyone

680
00:38:55,339 --> 00:38:57,049
in this room for their children.

681
00:38:57,883 --> 00:39:00,970
We just need the opportunity
to make it come true.

682
00:39:04,682 --> 00:39:05,808
Came from,
and where we're at now

683
00:39:05,975 --> 00:39:08,477
and where we're going to be.

684
00:39:17,736 --> 00:39:20,656
WOMAN: As you walk through the Rotunda
and you look at our pictures,

685
00:39:20,823 --> 00:39:24,076
look into our eyes, see our pain.

686
00:39:24,243 --> 00:39:26,495
Our pictures that you see
in the exhibit

687
00:39:26,662 --> 00:39:28,873
demonstrate
what we go through every day.

688
00:39:30,374 --> 00:39:33,335
This is un--

689
00:39:34,628 --> 00:39:36,297
It's unnecessary.

690
00:39:38,507 --> 00:39:40,050
CHILTON:
One of the most important things

691
00:39:40,217 --> 00:39:44,221
about Witnesses to Hunger
is the whole concept of change.

692
00:39:44,388 --> 00:39:47,099
This is not simply
just empowerment for the women.

693
00:39:47,266 --> 00:39:53,022
This is about sincere
and profound legislative change.

694
00:39:54,189 --> 00:39:56,817
McGOVERN: I know some
of this stuff is not easy to talk about.

695
00:39:56,984 --> 00:39:59,403
But yet you're down here,
and I am very, very grateful.

696
00:39:59,570 --> 00:40:02,197
And I feel food should be a right.

697
00:40:02,364 --> 00:40:04,158
We have a lot of lobbyists
who come down here

698
00:40:04,325 --> 00:40:06,911
who get well-paid and talk
about other things, so--

699
00:40:07,077 --> 00:40:08,996
You know, you're kind of
a dream come true for me,

700
00:40:09,163 --> 00:40:11,373
because I want people
to descend on Capitol Hill,

701
00:40:11,540 --> 00:40:14,335
you know, and talk about the need

702
00:40:14,501 --> 00:40:17,630
to make sure that we focus on issues

703
00:40:17,796 --> 00:40:20,341
dealing with poverty and hunger
and nutritious food.

704
00:40:20,507 --> 00:40:21,675
Anyway, thank you for coming

705
00:40:21,842 --> 00:40:23,344
all the way up
to the Rules Committee.

706
00:40:23,510 --> 00:40:24,595
WOMAN:
Thank you so much.

707
00:40:24,762 --> 00:40:29,183
MAN: The Obama Administration
takes this opportunity very seriously.

708
00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:31,727
The administration proposed
an historic investment

709
00:40:31,894 --> 00:40:34,772
of $10 billion in additional
funding over ten years.

710
00:40:34,939 --> 00:40:37,274
As we reauthorize the programs,

711
00:40:37,441 --> 00:40:40,486
have you been able to work
through the budget process

712
00:40:40,653 --> 00:40:43,030
to determine whether
we can pay for them?

713
00:40:43,197 --> 00:40:44,990
Senator, I think it's important

714
00:40:45,157 --> 00:40:50,329
to focus on what the cost of inaction
and inactivity might be.

715
00:40:50,496 --> 00:40:52,831
And as you well know,
Senator, from your experience,

716
00:40:52,998 --> 00:40:56,251
you fund your priorities.
You fund your priorities.

717
00:40:56,418 --> 00:40:59,505
DAVID BECKMANN: The President
proposed an additional $1 billion a year

718
00:40:59,672 --> 00:41:01,590
to strengthen child nutrition programs.

719
00:41:01,757 --> 00:41:02,716
And he was very clear.

720
00:41:02,883 --> 00:41:06,011
Let's take that money away

721
00:41:06,178 --> 00:41:08,722
from some of
the least justifiable payments

722
00:41:08,889 --> 00:41:11,016
to affluent landholders.

723
00:41:11,183 --> 00:41:15,521
Well, that part of his proposal
died within <i>24</i> hours.

724
00:41:15,688 --> 00:41:18,315
Both the Ag committees said,
"No way, you're not touching that."

725
00:41:18,482 --> 00:41:19,858
CONGRESSWOMAN:
We want to thank everyone

726
00:41:20,025 --> 00:41:21,610
as we begin the committee's work
to reauthorize

727
00:41:21,777 --> 00:41:23,445
the Federal Child Nutrition Programs.

728
00:41:23,612 --> 00:41:25,739
Hopefully, we'll be able
to work this out.

729
00:41:25,906 --> 00:41:29,535
I hate to pit agriculture
against nutrition,

730
00:41:29,702 --> 00:41:32,371
would seem to be inconsistent.

731
00:41:32,538 --> 00:41:34,498
JONATHAN STEIN:
The Agriculture Committee is there

732
00:41:34,665 --> 00:41:37,835
to allocate lots of money
to agribusiness,

733
00:41:38,002 --> 00:41:43,007
support and subsidize the prices
of other agriculture products,

734
00:41:43,173 --> 00:41:48,429
and we're very sorry that we're not
going to address fully childhood hunger.

735
00:41:48,595 --> 00:41:50,180
We are voting on yet another bill

736
00:41:50,347 --> 00:41:53,058
that calls for the government to grow,

737
00:41:53,225 --> 00:41:56,854
expand, spend more,
and intrude more.

738
00:41:57,021 --> 00:41:58,647
I can't help but be reminded

739
00:41:58,814 --> 00:42:00,482
of the fact that my friends
on the other side of the aisle

740
00:42:00,649 --> 00:42:02,609
have borrowed countless
billions of dollars

741
00:42:02,776 --> 00:42:05,904
to pay for tax cuts
for millionaires and billionaires.

742
00:42:06,071 --> 00:42:07,489
They have no problem
with doing that.

743
00:42:26,550 --> 00:42:30,888
The critical investment this bill makes
are completely paid for

744
00:42:31,055 --> 00:42:34,183
and will not add 1¢
to the national debt.

745
00:42:35,350 --> 00:42:38,353
CHILTON: The fact that they call it
the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act

746
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:39,772
and then, at the same time,

747
00:42:39,938 --> 00:42:42,399
scoop money out
of the food stamp program,

748
00:42:42,566 --> 00:42:44,193
that to me is a paradox.

749
00:42:44,359 --> 00:42:45,944
You can't just, like, push a tiny bit

750
00:42:46,111 --> 00:42:47,821
of mashed potatoes
from one side of the plate

751
00:42:47,988 --> 00:42:49,865
to the other and say,
"Okay, now we have fed you."

752
00:42:50,032 --> 00:42:51,575
McGOVERN:
It's not a victory.

753
00:42:51,742 --> 00:42:54,036
You're taking money out
of the mouths of poor people,

754
00:42:54,203 --> 00:42:56,163
and, yeah, you're putting it
toward a good cause,

755
00:42:56,330 --> 00:42:57,581
which is child nutrition,
but why are we--

756
00:42:57,748 --> 00:42:59,374
Why are we making this choice?

757
00:42:59,541 --> 00:43:02,503
SHORE:
The great temptation in Washington

758
00:43:02,669 --> 00:43:05,214
is to always take
something away from those

759
00:43:05,380 --> 00:43:07,883
who, frankly,
can't defend themselves.

760
00:43:09,093 --> 00:43:11,970
I think we spent maybe $700 billion

761
00:43:12,137 --> 00:43:13,889
on the banking and insurance bailout,

762
00:43:14,056 --> 00:43:16,892
so $4.5 billion is really just
a fraction of that.

763
00:43:17,059 --> 00:43:20,187
It's kind of symptomatic of how lopsided

764
00:43:20,354 --> 00:43:23,148
things have become in Washington
as a result of special interests

765
00:43:23,315 --> 00:43:25,943
that frankly control a lot
of the Congressional agenda.

766
00:43:32,407 --> 00:43:33,826
NESTLE:
As long as we have a system

767
00:43:33,992 --> 00:43:36,620
where corporates
can fund election campaigns,

768
00:43:36,787 --> 00:43:39,456
we're going to have legislators
who are more interested

769
00:43:39,623 --> 00:43:41,875
in corporate health than public health.

770
00:43:42,042 --> 00:43:43,627
It's just appalling.

771
00:43:43,794 --> 00:43:45,295
You know, if another country
was doing this to our kids,

772
00:43:45,462 --> 00:43:46,713
we would be at war.

773
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,299
This is, you know, it's just insane.

774
00:43:49,466 --> 00:43:51,718
And it doesn't have to be that way.

775
00:43:53,137 --> 00:43:56,598
CHARLES KURALT: These children,
all of them, are Americans.

776
00:43:56,765 --> 00:43:58,684
And all of them are hungry.

777
00:43:58,851 --> 00:44:02,396
One of the most poignant things
that occurred during the 1960s

778
00:44:02,563 --> 00:44:05,023
to really put hunger
on the national agenda

779
00:44:05,190 --> 00:44:10,696
was a special hour-long documentary
by CBS in 1968.

780
00:44:13,323 --> 00:44:16,160
ANNOUNCER:
Here for <i>CBS Reports</i> is Charles Kuralt.

781
00:44:16,326 --> 00:44:20,164
Food is the most basic
of all human needs.

782
00:44:20,330 --> 00:44:23,667
Man can manage to live
without shelter, without clothing,

783
00:44:23,834 --> 00:44:25,502
even without love.

784
00:44:25,669 --> 00:44:28,505
But man can't remain alive
without food.

785
00:44:28,672 --> 00:44:31,925
We're talking
about 10 million Americans.

786
00:44:32,092 --> 00:44:35,304
In this country,
the most basic human need

787
00:44:35,470 --> 00:44:37,431
must become a human right.

788
00:44:38,599 --> 00:44:41,518
BROWN: It galvanized
public opinion in such a way

789
00:44:41,685 --> 00:44:44,646
that President Nixon and
the Democratic leaders of Congress

790
00:44:44,813 --> 00:44:49,026
decided they had to do something
about hunger at our time.

791
00:44:49,193 --> 00:44:51,570
The moment is at hand
to put an end to hunger

792
00:44:51,737 --> 00:44:54,781
in America itself for all time.

793
00:44:54,948 --> 00:44:56,575
The past ten years now,
the federal government

794
00:44:56,742 --> 00:44:59,620
has spent billions of dollars
fighting hunger in America.

795
00:45:00,621 --> 00:45:02,956
BROWN: They expanded
the food stamp program

796
00:45:03,123 --> 00:45:05,083
to make it a national program,

797
00:45:05,250 --> 00:45:08,587
they expanded
the elderly feeding programs,

798
00:45:08,754 --> 00:45:11,423
they instituted
a school breakfast program

799
00:45:11,590 --> 00:45:13,050
to go along
with the school lunch program

800
00:45:13,217 --> 00:45:15,552
which had gone back to the 1940s.

801
00:45:17,179 --> 00:45:19,264
It showed that public policy could work.

802
00:45:19,431 --> 00:45:23,769
Political will could work
to make a difference in our country.

803
00:45:23,936 --> 00:45:26,271
BERG: Regular Americans rose up
and demanded

804
00:45:26,438 --> 00:45:28,690
that we create a modern
nutrition assistance safety net,

805
00:45:28,857 --> 00:45:33,070
which almost helped us almost
end hunger entirely by the late 1970s.

806
00:45:33,237 --> 00:45:34,655
KYRA PHILLIPS: Joining us
this morning from Washington,

807
00:45:34,821 --> 00:45:37,532
Jeff Bridges, the national spokesman
for Share Our Strength,

808
00:45:37,699 --> 00:45:40,327
and also the group's founder
and executive director Billy Shore.

809
00:45:40,494 --> 00:45:41,662
Welcome to both of you.

810
00:45:41,828 --> 00:45:42,955
Thanks for joining us
this morning.

811
00:45:43,121 --> 00:45:44,414
BRIDGES:
Good morning, Kyra.

812
00:45:44,581 --> 00:45:45,582
- Thank you.
- Jeff, let me start with you.

813
00:45:45,749 --> 00:45:47,334
You've been passionate
about this for a long time.

814
00:45:47,501 --> 00:45:50,337
I know that you founded
the End Hunger Network back in 1983.

815
00:45:50,504 --> 00:45:52,214
- Mm-hmm.
- Tell us about this new campaign,

816
00:45:52,381 --> 00:45:54,675
the No Kid Hungry campaign
that launches today.

817
00:45:54,841 --> 00:45:56,051
We're in dire straits.

818
00:45:56,218 --> 00:45:58,262
We have 17 million of our children

819
00:45:58,428 --> 00:46:01,807
who are living in homes
with food insecurity.

820
00:46:01,974 --> 00:46:06,186
And I believe no child
in America should go hungry,

821
00:46:06,353 --> 00:46:08,480
and by taking this pledge,
I'm adding my voice

822
00:46:08,647 --> 00:46:11,316
to the national movement
of people who are committed

823
00:46:11,483 --> 00:46:15,070
to end childhood hunger
in America by 2015.

824
00:46:16,321 --> 00:46:19,199
Back in the early '80s,
when I went to a seminar

825
00:46:19,366 --> 00:46:21,243
about ending world hunger,

826
00:46:21,410 --> 00:46:24,204
hunger was pretty much handled
in America.

827
00:46:24,371 --> 00:46:25,622
We had food stamps
and the WIC program

828
00:46:25,789 --> 00:46:27,916
that were really
keeping hunger at bay.

829
00:46:28,083 --> 00:46:32,254
And then these programs started
to be underfunded.

830
00:46:33,505 --> 00:46:36,967
And I figured, well, you know,
it's a little difficult to be telling

831
00:46:37,134 --> 00:46:38,885
some other country
on how to handle hunger

832
00:46:39,052 --> 00:46:41,096
when we're not handling it
ourselves.

833
00:46:41,263 --> 00:46:44,933
We virtually eradicated hunger
in America in the 1970s,

834
00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:46,893
but it's back with a vengeance.

835
00:46:50,439 --> 00:46:51,565
SHORE: People look back
on the Reagan years,

836
00:46:51,732 --> 00:46:53,275
and particularly during
the recession,

837
00:46:53,442 --> 00:46:54,776
and they saw several things happen.

838
00:46:54,943 --> 00:46:58,864
There were a lot of tax cuts,
so the government's tax base shrunk.

839
00:46:59,031 --> 00:47:01,408
There was a big increase
in defense spending.

840
00:47:01,575 --> 00:47:03,327
And so how is
that going to be made up?

841
00:47:03,493 --> 00:47:07,247
It was made up by cutting the budgets
of a lot of social programs.

842
00:47:18,216 --> 00:47:21,011
So at a time that need was
going up more in the country,

843
00:47:21,178 --> 00:47:23,305
they cut the programs
that made them less.

844
00:47:23,472 --> 00:47:25,265
And what popped out
of that equation?

845
00:47:25,432 --> 00:47:27,351
More hungry people
on the streets.

846
00:47:31,938 --> 00:47:36,318
BERG: The '80s created the myth
that A: hungry people deserved it,

847
00:47:36,485 --> 00:47:40,155
and B: well, we could really
fill in the gaps with charities.

848
00:47:42,699 --> 00:47:44,826
POPPENDIECK:
And so we had a proliferation

849
00:47:44,993 --> 00:47:46,495
of emergency responses.

850
00:47:46,661 --> 00:47:52,542
Soup kitchens, food pantries,
moving from literally a shelf

851
00:47:52,709 --> 00:47:58,673
in the cupboard of the pastor's office
to an operation with regular hours.

852
00:48:00,842 --> 00:48:03,720
BROWN: Something changed
during that period of time.

853
00:48:03,970 --> 00:48:07,099
There developed this ethos
that government was doing too much.

854
00:48:07,265 --> 00:48:10,685
And more importantly,
the private sector's wonderful.

855
00:48:10,852 --> 00:48:12,938
And let's feed people
through charity.

856
00:48:23,365 --> 00:48:25,242
POPPENDIECK:
We have basically created

857
00:48:25,409 --> 00:48:29,621
a kind of secondary food system
for the poor in this country.

858
00:48:29,788 --> 00:48:31,873
Millions and millions of Americans,

859
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,834
as many as 50 million Americans,

860
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,586
rely on charitable food programs

861
00:48:36,753 --> 00:48:39,923
for some part of meeting
their basic food needs.

862
00:48:51,101 --> 00:48:54,187
431 and 451 for backpacks
for this week.

863
00:48:55,772 --> 00:48:58,859
WILSON: Every Wednesday we
go down and get a trailer full of food

864
00:48:59,025 --> 00:49:00,944
from Food Bank of the Rockies.

865
00:49:03,113 --> 00:49:04,489
The problem that we run into

866
00:49:04,656 --> 00:49:08,452
in small towns is that the income level
has gone down,

867
00:49:08,618 --> 00:49:10,245
the jobs are minimal,

868
00:49:10,412 --> 00:49:13,165
the second-
and third-generation people

869
00:49:13,331 --> 00:49:15,584
are having to leave the area
to find work.

870
00:49:22,007 --> 00:49:24,050
Ten years ago or so,
when we started this,

871
00:49:24,217 --> 00:49:26,970
my wife and I had
purchased an old Suburban.

872
00:49:27,137 --> 00:49:30,390
And I remember driving it
to the food bank

873
00:49:30,557 --> 00:49:32,601
and being excited about backing up

874
00:49:32,767 --> 00:49:36,271
and filling that Suburban
with 10 to 15 boxes of food,

875
00:49:36,438 --> 00:49:38,815
and thinking we were really
making a difference in our community.

876
00:49:38,982 --> 00:49:43,862
And after a year and a half,
we bought a little single-axle trailer

877
00:49:44,029 --> 00:49:45,739
that we could put
two pallets of food in it.

878
00:49:45,906 --> 00:49:47,574
And we thought we had really
arrived, that that--

879
00:49:47,741 --> 00:49:49,034
We could certainly meet the needs

880
00:49:49,201 --> 00:49:50,619
of the community
with two pallets of food.

881
00:49:50,785 --> 00:49:55,415
And four years ago,
a gentleman from our church

882
00:49:55,582 --> 00:50:00,337
donated this trailer and now we're
doing four pallets twice a week.

883
00:50:00,504 --> 00:50:02,005
And it's--It's amazing
how the need

884
00:50:02,172 --> 00:50:05,383
has increased over the ten years.

885
00:50:18,063 --> 00:50:22,609
APPELHANZ: About a month ago,
we had three officers including myself.

886
00:50:22,776 --> 00:50:25,904
However, due to budget constraints,
we're now down to just me.

887
00:50:27,197 --> 00:50:28,865
It was always
kind of a prideful thing

888
00:50:29,032 --> 00:50:30,784
that I never needed anybody's help.

889
00:50:30,951 --> 00:50:35,121
Unfortunately, I haven't received
a pay raise in four years.

890
00:50:35,288 --> 00:50:37,999
And what I used to spend
on a month in groceries

891
00:50:38,166 --> 00:50:40,001
now gets me about two weeks.

892
00:50:40,168 --> 00:50:42,087
[ Indistinct chatter ]

893
00:50:46,049 --> 00:50:49,511
I have utilized
Pastor Bob's food bank.

894
00:50:50,887 --> 00:50:53,848
The way it makes me feel,
it's very humiliating.

895
00:50:54,015 --> 00:50:56,977
Uh, well, incorrect.
That--It's not humiliating.

896
00:50:57,143 --> 00:51:00,522
It's, um, very grounding.

897
00:51:02,691 --> 00:51:05,026
The stereotype
of food banks is always

898
00:51:05,193 --> 00:51:08,196
for the unemployed
or the disabled,

899
00:51:08,363 --> 00:51:10,574
people that can't go out
and get a job.

900
00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:14,077
That's not always the case.

901
00:51:14,244 --> 00:51:16,663
Sometimes in life,
you just get to points

902
00:51:16,830 --> 00:51:18,498
where you need a little extra help.

903
00:51:18,665 --> 00:51:21,334
[ The Civil Wars' <i>20 Years</i> ]

904
00:51:25,297 --> 00:51:27,090
[ Whistles ]

905
00:51:27,257 --> 00:51:29,092
[ Cattle lowing ]

906
00:51:29,259 --> 00:51:31,052
[ Shouts ]

907
00:51:31,219 --> 00:51:33,680
JOEL LONG:
Ranching is a good part of life.

908
00:51:33,847 --> 00:51:35,223
It's a lot of work.

909
00:51:35,390 --> 00:51:36,558
But it's an honest--

910
00:51:36,725 --> 00:51:38,727
Actually, it's an honest trade.

911
00:51:40,061 --> 00:51:43,023
But the way the economy
and everything has gone south,

912
00:51:43,189 --> 00:51:45,942
I have had to go find
another job out of the house.

913
00:51:46,985 --> 00:51:49,696
So I work on the ranch
from 7:00 in the morning

914
00:51:49,863 --> 00:51:51,031
till 3:00 in the afternoon.

915
00:51:51,197 --> 00:51:52,824
And then
at 3:00 in the afternoon

916
00:51:52,991 --> 00:51:56,369
till 11:00 at night,
I got down and clean the school.

917
00:51:56,536 --> 00:52:01,041
- [ Vacuum hums ]
- ♪ And a secret ♪

918
00:52:01,207 --> 00:52:02,959
♪ In an envelope ♪

919
00:52:03,126 --> 00:52:04,919
LONG: It's a good job.
It's close to home.

920
00:52:06,713 --> 00:52:10,800
There's a lot that you--
You worry about.

921
00:52:12,093 --> 00:52:14,220
Your kids is the main one.

922
00:52:14,387 --> 00:52:16,723
And that's part of the reason
I did take a second job

923
00:52:16,890 --> 00:52:20,060
is so I can help buy groceries

924
00:52:20,226 --> 00:52:22,103
and put food on the table
for my kids.

925
00:52:22,270 --> 00:52:23,480
Come on, dogs.

926
00:52:37,077 --> 00:52:39,537
[ Indistinct chatter ]

927
00:52:40,914 --> 00:52:42,123
Don't touch and don't look.

928
00:52:42,290 --> 00:52:44,125
- [ Indistinct ]
- Cool.

929
00:52:44,292 --> 00:52:46,419
[ Conversation inaudible ]

930
00:52:46,586 --> 00:52:48,380
LONG:
Pastor Bob and his wife,

931
00:52:48,546 --> 00:52:50,632
they do give 'em
a warm meal after school.

932
00:52:50,799 --> 00:52:52,634
[ Indistinct chatter ]

933
00:52:55,011 --> 00:52:56,971
- Hi, Daddy.
- Howdy.

934
00:52:57,806 --> 00:52:59,724
LONG:
It helps, you know.

935
00:53:01,476 --> 00:53:04,020
It's getting harder
to try to figure out

936
00:53:04,270 --> 00:53:06,439
how to make all your ends meet.

937
00:53:08,358 --> 00:53:11,111
But you gotta do
what you have to do

938
00:53:11,277 --> 00:53:14,948
to help support
what you created, you know.

939
00:53:30,672 --> 00:53:31,631
All right.
Do you need help?

940
00:53:31,798 --> 00:53:33,133
- Nope.
- Okay. Thank you.

941
00:53:33,299 --> 00:53:34,217
I'll grab three off there as I go by.

942
00:53:34,384 --> 00:53:37,429
NICHOLS: I was one of those kids
that was hungry.

943
00:53:37,595 --> 00:53:38,847
Growing up, it was difficult,

944
00:53:39,013 --> 00:53:40,473
because I could see
how difficult it was

945
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,017
for my mother when she would return
from the food bank.

946
00:53:43,184 --> 00:53:44,227
It was embarrassing.

947
00:53:45,395 --> 00:53:47,397
I remember
I was in second grade,

948
00:53:47,564 --> 00:53:49,524
and just remembering
opened up the refrigerator

949
00:53:49,691 --> 00:53:52,110
for, like, the first time in my life
and going, "Wow."

950
00:53:52,277 --> 00:53:53,653
I'm one of those kids,
you know,

951
00:53:53,820 --> 00:53:55,739
that you hear about on TV,
or you see about on TV.

952
00:53:55,905 --> 00:53:58,867
There was, like, two carrots
in the bottom of the crisper.

953
00:53:59,033 --> 00:54:03,455
And I just remembered thinking,
"What are we gonna do?"

954
00:54:06,666 --> 00:54:10,503
I deliver food bags every week
from the food bank at our local church.

955
00:54:10,670 --> 00:54:14,174
It's uncomfortable sometimes,
so what I've tried to do is

956
00:54:14,340 --> 00:54:16,509
get an understanding
of their schedules,

957
00:54:16,676 --> 00:54:18,845
and then drop it off
and leave it,

958
00:54:19,012 --> 00:54:20,472
so it's not that added pressure.

959
00:54:20,638 --> 00:54:21,639
And I know that they're thankful,

960
00:54:21,806 --> 00:54:24,017
because it's gone
when I come back.

961
00:54:26,978 --> 00:54:28,563
[ Dog barking ]

962
00:54:28,730 --> 00:54:30,356
I know how I operated.
It wasn't very good.

963
00:54:30,523 --> 00:54:31,941
I didn't do well in school.

964
00:54:32,108 --> 00:54:34,068
I didn't have that great
of attendance.

965
00:54:34,235 --> 00:54:38,823
And I just felt like
I kind of lived

966
00:54:38,990 --> 00:54:41,951
under this umbrella
of feeling inferior to others.

967
00:54:48,958 --> 00:54:50,710
It messes with you.

968
00:54:51,711 --> 00:54:54,255
It's just still always there.

969
00:55:03,056 --> 00:55:04,641
Rosie just really struggles.

970
00:55:04,808 --> 00:55:07,018
You know,
she was significantly behind.

971
00:55:07,185 --> 00:55:09,187
But despite all of that,
she tries so hard

972
00:55:09,354 --> 00:55:11,231
to be so positive all the time.

973
00:55:12,816 --> 00:55:15,318
One of my own personal
missions was

974
00:55:15,485 --> 00:55:16,820
to try to see if there was
something I could do

975
00:55:16,986 --> 00:55:18,238
that could make a difference.

976
00:55:18,404 --> 00:55:21,115
And I asked her if she'd be
interested in the food bags.

977
00:55:21,282 --> 00:55:22,575
And she was very excited.

978
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:25,203
ROSIE:
We could do with another one.

979
00:55:25,370 --> 00:55:26,621
NICHOLS: [ laughs ]

980
00:55:26,788 --> 00:55:28,122
You want cake for breakfast,
right, Rose?

981
00:55:28,289 --> 00:55:30,542
- Yeah.
- Yeah? All right.

982
00:55:30,708 --> 00:55:32,252
- I'll take that in for you.
- Okay.

983
00:55:32,418 --> 00:55:33,628
You guys got your hands full.

984
00:55:33,795 --> 00:55:34,879
- I'll just walk it in for you.
- Okay.

985
00:55:35,046 --> 00:55:36,548
All righty.

986
00:55:36,714 --> 00:55:39,008
- How are you, Miss Nichols?
- I'm good, thanks.

987
00:55:39,175 --> 00:55:42,262
You ready for your last big week
of school before Christmas?

988
00:55:42,428 --> 00:55:43,847
- Yeah.
- Yeah?

989
00:55:44,848 --> 00:55:46,432
Okay...

990
00:55:52,355 --> 00:55:53,940
Blah. There we go.

991
00:55:55,108 --> 00:55:57,443
Okay, a bunch of graham crackers.

992
00:55:58,820 --> 00:56:00,321
DAWN: Mrs. Nichols
comes about once a week.

993
00:56:00,488 --> 00:56:02,365
It's eight bags that she brings.

994
00:56:02,532 --> 00:56:05,076
There might be potatoes.
There might be bread.

995
00:56:05,243 --> 00:56:08,538
You know, right now, I think we have
30 jars of peanut butter.

996
00:56:08,705 --> 00:56:12,041
That's just one of the things
that Mrs. Nichols brings out right now.

997
00:56:12,208 --> 00:56:15,003
There's always
some kind of soups,

998
00:56:15,169 --> 00:56:17,505
Spaghettios, a lot of snacks.

999
00:56:19,549 --> 00:56:22,051
I like these.

1000
00:56:22,218 --> 00:56:24,012
Ooh, now these ones...

1001
00:56:24,178 --> 00:56:28,016
Sometimes, I will admit,
I do feel a little bit guilty

1002
00:56:28,182 --> 00:56:30,935
bringing 'em food bags,
because it's starch,

1003
00:56:31,102 --> 00:56:33,730
it's lots of carbohydrates,
it's lots of sugars

1004
00:56:33,897 --> 00:56:35,899
and other chemicals.

1005
00:56:36,065 --> 00:56:38,484
Grandma,
we got apple pie bars.

1006
00:56:38,651 --> 00:56:39,861
DAWN: Oh, awesome.

1007
00:56:40,028 --> 00:56:41,362
Apple pie.

1008
00:56:42,488 --> 00:56:44,908
NICHOLS: In a perfect world,
you would want it to be

1009
00:56:45,074 --> 00:56:47,577
as well-balanced
as you could make it,

1010
00:56:47,744 --> 00:56:51,789
but the reality is
you get what you can.

1011
00:56:51,956 --> 00:56:54,626
And giving something is
certainly more than nothing.

1012
00:56:54,792 --> 00:56:56,878
And so you just
kind of find a little bit of...

1013
00:56:57,045 --> 00:56:58,755
[ chuckles ]

1014
00:56:58,922 --> 00:57:01,716
I guess reassurance in knowing
that you are making a difference,

1015
00:57:01,883 --> 00:57:03,676
even though it's not perfect.

1016
00:57:05,303 --> 00:57:07,555
Okay. Give these three--

1017
00:57:07,722 --> 00:57:09,432
- Are you gonna take 'em all?
- Yeah, I got 'em.

1018
00:57:09,599 --> 00:57:10,516
All right. Thank you.

1019
00:57:10,683 --> 00:57:11,935
- Good job on your basketball game.
- Thank you.

1020
00:57:12,101 --> 00:57:13,895
CHILTON: That's something
that's extremely important.

1021
00:57:14,062 --> 00:57:16,314
The churches and the community
groups that do hand out food

1022
00:57:16,481 --> 00:57:18,858
are doing an incredible service
to this country

1023
00:57:19,025 --> 00:57:21,361
and to the children that are
experiencing hunger.

1024
00:57:21,527 --> 00:57:24,781
But that's just a quick fix.
That's for today and tomorrow,

1025
00:57:24,948 --> 00:57:26,616
maybe for next week.

1026
00:57:26,783 --> 00:57:28,534
We call it emergency food.

1027
00:57:28,701 --> 00:57:30,244
It's no longer emergency food.

1028
00:57:30,411 --> 00:57:33,706
This is called chronic use
of a broken system

1029
00:57:33,873 --> 00:57:36,209
for which people cannot
be held accountable.

1030
00:57:38,503 --> 00:57:40,588
POPPENDIECK: If people are
gonna be relying on this food

1031
00:57:40,755 --> 00:57:44,676
as a significant portion
of their food intake over time,

1032
00:57:44,842 --> 00:57:46,386
then we do need to pay attention

1033
00:57:46,552 --> 00:57:48,680
to what kind of food
are they getting?

1034
00:57:52,016 --> 00:57:53,935
BRIDGES:
Charity is a great thing,

1035
00:57:54,102 --> 00:57:55,812
but it's not the way
to end hunger.

1036
00:57:58,147 --> 00:58:00,024
We don't fund
our Department of Defense

1037
00:58:00,191 --> 00:58:02,110
through charity, you know.

1038
00:58:02,276 --> 00:58:05,071
We shouldn't, you know,
see that our kids are healthy

1039
00:58:05,238 --> 00:58:06,406
through charity either.

1040
00:58:06,572 --> 00:58:09,617
There should be, you know,
something that--

1041
00:58:09,784 --> 00:58:12,245
In our country, in America,
the richest country in the world,

1042
00:58:12,412 --> 00:58:15,248
you know, we should, you know,
take care of our kids.

1043
00:58:20,086 --> 00:58:22,422
We have tried
1,000 points of light.

1044
00:58:22,588 --> 00:58:24,132
We have tried it in spades.

1045
00:58:24,298 --> 00:58:27,927
But with all that expansion
of private feeding,

1046
00:58:28,094 --> 00:58:31,514
all of that effort,
especially by the faith communities,

1047
00:58:31,681 --> 00:58:33,224
we have not reduced hunger.

1048
00:58:37,729 --> 00:58:40,440
PATEL: Our legislators only think
of the cost of hunger in America

1049
00:58:40,606 --> 00:58:43,693
as being what it is
that they spend on food stamps.

1050
00:58:43,860 --> 00:58:46,029
But the <i>genuine</i> cost
of hunger in America

1051
00:58:46,195 --> 00:58:47,613
is way, way higher.

1052
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,245
- Hey, Mr. Broom.
- Hey, Doc. How you doing?

1053
00:58:54,412 --> 00:58:56,456
I gotta get a forklift
to get your chart out the door.

1054
00:58:56,622 --> 00:58:58,458
BROOM:
What do you think? [ laughs ]

1055
00:58:58,624 --> 00:59:00,168
You gotta roll around on a cart.

1056
00:59:00,334 --> 00:59:02,420
DR. WILLIAM BOOKER:
Yeah. How you doing today?

1057
00:59:02,587 --> 00:59:05,423
- Not too good, Doc.
- Uh-oh.

1058
00:59:05,590 --> 00:59:07,133
Where have you noticed
the swelling at?

1059
00:59:07,300 --> 00:59:09,177
BROOM: My legs again.

1060
00:59:11,721 --> 00:59:14,807
And the fluids get all riled
and jump up, and I just--

1061
00:59:14,974 --> 00:59:17,518
Oh, I mean, I be scared
to lay back down.

1062
00:59:17,685 --> 00:59:20,480
I just sit on the side of the bed
and haltway doze.

1063
00:59:20,646 --> 00:59:23,024
Okay, for the last couple of days,
how have you been doing?

1064
00:59:23,858 --> 00:59:28,029
Uh, if I walk ten steps,
I get out of breath.

1065
00:59:28,196 --> 00:59:30,907
BOOKER: Obesity makes
all other medical problems worse.

1066
00:59:31,074 --> 00:59:33,367
High blood pressure, diabetes.

1067
00:59:33,534 --> 00:59:35,453
We probably diagnose
new cases of diabetes

1068
00:59:35,620 --> 00:59:37,163
four, five, six times a week.

1069
00:59:37,330 --> 00:59:39,916
This is Dr. Booker.
I need a telemetry bed

1070
00:59:40,083 --> 00:59:42,210
- for Mr. John Broom.
- John Broom.

1071
00:59:42,376 --> 00:59:45,588
Congestive heart failure.
I'm going to directly admit him.

1072
00:59:45,755 --> 00:59:48,132
He's gonna bring his orders
by the emergency room.

1073
01:00:01,104 --> 01:00:03,356
Those younger people
who are developing those diseases

1074
01:00:03,523 --> 01:00:04,857
at an early age are gonna get

1075
01:00:05,024 --> 01:00:06,943
the end-stage complications
a lot earlier.

1076
01:00:08,319 --> 01:00:10,905
So education is what
it's gonna take

1077
01:00:11,072 --> 01:00:12,406
to get people to do
what they need to do

1078
01:00:12,573 --> 01:00:14,117
to reduce some of these problems.

1079
01:00:14,283 --> 01:00:16,202
And we need to start it
very early on.

1080
01:00:19,914 --> 01:00:21,457
ODESSA CHERRY:
At the bathroom, line up at the door.

1081
01:00:21,624 --> 01:00:25,586
I am Odessa Cherry.
I am a second-grade teacher

1082
01:00:25,753 --> 01:00:27,421
here at Jonestown Elementary School.

1083
01:00:27,588 --> 01:00:30,424
Love it. I've been teaching
over 17 years.

1084
01:00:30,591 --> 01:00:31,634
I love the babies.

1085
01:00:33,594 --> 01:00:35,388
I was diagnosed with diabetes.

1086
01:00:35,555 --> 01:00:38,558
And it's been about a year--
almost a year.

1087
01:00:38,724 --> 01:00:41,060
And when I was first diagnosed,

1088
01:00:41,227 --> 01:00:43,771
I told the doctor,
"I don't want the pill.

1089
01:00:43,938 --> 01:00:47,441
"I think I can do it with just diet."

1090
01:00:47,608 --> 01:00:49,735
And so that was the one thing
that really

1091
01:00:49,902 --> 01:00:51,988
got me to thinking about
what you're eating.

1092
01:00:52,155 --> 01:00:54,448
Oh, check it out.
Did y'all see that?

1093
01:00:54,615 --> 01:00:56,033
Is that what--
Is that what sparked

1094
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:57,702
y'all talkin'
about what he said, huh?

1095
01:00:57,869 --> 01:00:59,120
'Cause I was wondering
what it was.

1096
01:01:00,705 --> 01:01:02,039
CHERRY:
And when the change started,

1097
01:01:02,206 --> 01:01:04,625
everybody was, like,
"What, no fried chicken?

1098
01:01:04,876 --> 01:01:06,669
"No fried fish?"
That was the biggest thing,

1099
01:01:06,836 --> 01:01:10,464
that fried fish, 'cause we love
catfish in this area.

1100
01:01:10,631 --> 01:01:13,551
I mean, if it's not fried,
it's not fish, so...

1101
01:01:14,719 --> 01:01:16,679
And it was just, "I don't eat that.

1102
01:01:16,846 --> 01:01:19,807
"I don't eat this. I don't like that.
I don't like--"

1103
01:01:19,974 --> 01:01:21,517
And I'm like,
"Have you tried it?"

1104
01:01:21,684 --> 01:01:23,060
And I have many of 'em say, "No."

1105
01:01:23,227 --> 01:01:25,438
And so I'm saying, "Try it."

1106
01:01:25,605 --> 01:01:27,899
And I'm trying to force myself
to try it because,

1107
01:01:28,065 --> 01:01:29,692
you know, this is new to me.

1108
01:01:29,859 --> 01:01:32,987
And once you eat it, it's like,
"That's not bad."

1109
01:01:34,322 --> 01:01:37,825
Now, that helped me
to understand the impact

1110
01:01:37,992 --> 01:01:40,953
that we can have on our children.

1111
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,497
And the younger they are,
the better.

1112
01:01:44,457 --> 01:01:46,667
Awareness is the beginning.

1113
01:01:56,010 --> 01:01:58,262
[ Dog barking in distance ]

1114
01:02:01,015 --> 01:02:04,227
You did good. Yeah.

1115
01:02:12,902 --> 01:02:16,030
This is a kitchen.

1116
01:02:16,197 --> 01:02:19,700
This is our table,
and this is our microwave.

1117
01:02:19,867 --> 01:02:21,744
If you want tea,
just push "hot water,"

1118
01:02:21,911 --> 01:02:23,871
And then it goes.

1119
01:02:24,038 --> 01:02:25,706
And it's really cool.

1120
01:02:25,873 --> 01:02:29,043
And this is our box
where we put all of our food

1121
01:02:29,210 --> 01:02:33,089
that we get from the food bank
and from Miss Nichols.

1122
01:02:33,256 --> 01:02:34,966
And this is our bedroom.

1123
01:02:37,009 --> 01:02:38,970
Excuse me...

1124
01:02:39,136 --> 01:02:41,889
It's not that pleasant.

1125
01:02:45,393 --> 01:02:47,561
This is where I sleep,
right on this pillow.

1126
01:02:47,728 --> 01:02:50,648
This is where my sister sleeps
with her dog.

1127
01:02:50,815 --> 01:02:54,443
And this is where we have--
put all of our clothes.

1128
01:02:56,821 --> 01:02:58,698
When my friends come over,
I get embarrassed

1129
01:02:58,864 --> 01:03:01,117
because they have
bigger rooms than I do.

1130
01:03:01,284 --> 01:03:04,078
And, well,
we try to keep it clean.

1131
01:03:04,245 --> 01:03:07,039
And I put flowers up
because I just wanted

1132
01:03:07,206 --> 01:03:09,542
to decorate it and make it look nice.

1133
01:03:24,807 --> 01:03:26,267
Kitty.

1134
01:03:26,434 --> 01:03:29,395
PATEL: Is it that people are going hungry
because of a shortage of food?

1135
01:03:29,562 --> 01:03:30,646
No, it is not.

1136
01:03:30,813 --> 01:03:32,148
The reason
people are going hungry

1137
01:03:32,315 --> 01:03:33,733
is not because
of a shortage of food.

1138
01:03:33,899 --> 01:03:34,984
It's because of poverty.

1139
01:03:35,151 --> 01:03:37,278
Then, all of a sudden,
you're in a different question.

1140
01:03:37,445 --> 01:03:39,989
You're not asking,
"Why is there insufficient food?"

1141
01:03:40,156 --> 01:03:42,283
which is this sort of
very beneficent question.

1142
01:03:42,450 --> 01:03:45,411
But it turns out to be,
"Why are people poor?"

1143
01:03:45,578 --> 01:03:47,204
And right there,
you're in a political question,

1144
01:03:47,371 --> 01:03:49,832
and one that's
far more difficult to answer,

1145
01:03:49,999 --> 01:03:52,501
and involves asking
questions about power,

1146
01:03:52,668 --> 01:03:57,214
and about, you know, class,
and about inequality,

1147
01:03:57,381 --> 01:03:59,258
and the persistent inequality
in this country.

1148
01:03:59,425 --> 01:04:00,926
And that's a much harder
question to ask

1149
01:04:01,093 --> 01:04:03,846
than the question about,
well, is there enough food in America?

1150
01:04:04,013 --> 01:04:05,765
To which,
clearly, the answer is yes.

1151
01:04:08,559 --> 01:04:11,187
MARTY MOSS-COANE:
Barbie, you got it. [ laughs ]

1152
01:04:11,354 --> 01:04:12,772
So have a seat.

1153
01:04:12,938 --> 01:04:15,483
And, Mariana, I'm gonna
stick you over here.

1154
01:04:15,649 --> 01:04:19,236
From WHYY in Philadelphia,
this is <i>Radio Times.</i>

1155
01:04:19,403 --> 01:04:20,654
I'm Marty Moss-Coane.

1156
01:04:20,821 --> 01:04:22,656
And today on the show,
what does it mean

1157
01:04:22,823 --> 01:04:24,325
to be "food insecure"?

1158
01:04:24,492 --> 01:04:26,035
I mean, we shouldn't be surprised

1159
01:04:26,202 --> 01:04:28,287
that there are--
that there's hunger in this country,

1160
01:04:28,454 --> 01:04:30,039
when you look at the level of poverty.

1161
01:04:30,206 --> 01:04:31,916
And I wonder
just how much of a--

1162
01:04:32,083 --> 01:04:34,001
sort of denial there is out there.

1163
01:04:34,168 --> 01:04:37,171
And, of course, we are still,
as I think's true today,

1164
01:04:37,338 --> 01:04:38,589
the richest country in the world.

1165
01:04:38,756 --> 01:04:41,133
And this disconnect
between all this wealth

1166
01:04:41,300 --> 01:04:42,635
and people that don't have enough.

1167
01:04:42,802 --> 01:04:44,678
If you look at
the food insecurity numbers

1168
01:04:44,845 --> 01:04:48,140
in this country,
85% of those families

1169
01:04:48,307 --> 01:04:52,353
that are food insecure have at least
one working adult in the household.

1170
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:54,814
So from my perspective,
how do people get out of poverty?

1171
01:04:54,980 --> 01:04:57,525
They get--
They earn a living wage.

1172
01:04:57,691 --> 01:05:00,986
And so I think we need to turn
it around to accountability.

1173
01:05:01,153 --> 01:05:02,655
It's government accountability.

1174
01:05:02,822 --> 01:05:04,490
It's also corporate
accountability for ensuring

1175
01:05:04,657 --> 01:05:06,742
that people get living wages.

1176
01:05:06,909 --> 01:05:11,414
I mean, it sounds like
a lot of emotional stress

1177
01:05:11,580 --> 01:05:12,832
and strain that you both have.

1178
01:05:12,998 --> 01:05:14,917
- The humiliation of it?
- Yes.

1179
01:05:15,084 --> 01:05:18,212
BARBIE: Being labeled
as "low income" is shameful in itself.

1180
01:05:18,379 --> 01:05:19,839
It's the reality,
but you don't want to admit

1181
01:05:20,005 --> 01:05:21,507
that, okay, I am of low income.

1182
01:05:21,674 --> 01:05:23,217
Or because of
we're of low income,

1183
01:05:23,384 --> 01:05:24,844
we have to stand in this line

1184
01:05:25,010 --> 01:05:27,596
and receive food from whoever
wants to give it to us.

1185
01:05:27,763 --> 01:05:29,974
- So I think...That's what--
- That's tough.

1186
01:05:30,141 --> 01:05:32,393
MOSS-COANE:
Yeah, how about for you, Crystal?

1187
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:36,981
It seems like America has
turned a blind eye

1188
01:05:37,148 --> 01:05:40,985
to the fact that people are hungry
on a day-to-day basis.

1189
01:05:41,152 --> 01:05:43,112
It's not just women.

1190
01:05:43,279 --> 01:05:45,698
There's men
who are raising their children.

1191
01:05:45,865 --> 01:05:50,077
There are two-parent households
who go to work every day,

1192
01:05:50,244 --> 01:05:53,289
and still have
to turn to public assistance

1193
01:05:53,456 --> 01:05:55,583
to sustain their families,

1194
01:05:55,749 --> 01:05:57,501
which makes no sense.

1195
01:05:57,668 --> 01:06:00,546
LALANI:
Which is our bus?

1196
01:06:00,713 --> 01:06:02,339
BARBIE:
We gotta watch out for the bus.

1197
01:06:02,506 --> 01:06:05,509
[ Indistinct ]

1198
01:06:05,676 --> 01:06:07,470
Do I got toothpaste on my face?

1199
01:06:08,596 --> 01:06:10,681
No? Okay.

1200
01:06:15,478 --> 01:06:16,687
LALANI: No.

1201
01:06:18,314 --> 01:06:19,356
BARBIE: Yeah.

1202
01:06:19,523 --> 01:06:20,941
- No.
- Mm-hmm.

1203
01:06:21,108 --> 01:06:22,318
Mm-mm.

1204
01:06:22,485 --> 01:06:24,028
- Yep.
- Uh-uh.

1205
01:06:24,195 --> 01:06:26,447
There's a difference in your step.

1206
01:06:26,614 --> 01:06:28,824
Like, when you're on your way
to work,

1207
01:06:28,991 --> 01:06:31,660
and you know that
"I'm going to work now..."

1208
01:06:31,827 --> 01:06:34,455
It's a different type
of walk that you--

1209
01:06:34,622 --> 01:06:36,499
A different pace to your walk.

1210
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:54,475
Okay.

1211
01:06:54,642 --> 01:06:57,394
[ Phone ringing ]

1212
01:06:57,561 --> 01:06:59,855
Thank you for calling
the food stamp hotline.

1213
01:07:00,022 --> 01:07:01,315
How can I help you?

1214
01:07:01,482 --> 01:07:03,776
Okay,
so according to the information

1215
01:07:03,943 --> 01:07:05,402
that you've given me, it's telling me

1216
01:07:05,569 --> 01:07:09,823
you're eligible
for about $16 in food stamps.

1217
01:07:09,990 --> 01:07:12,243
Do you have any other questions?

1218
01:07:13,661 --> 01:07:15,829
It's hectic sometimes,

1219
01:07:15,996 --> 01:07:19,792
but I just look at it
as though every day

1220
01:07:19,959 --> 01:07:23,337
I have the chance to put food
in someone's mouth.

1221
01:07:23,504 --> 01:07:26,840
Not directly, but I know what it's like
to be turned down.

1222
01:07:27,007 --> 01:07:31,303
And now I'm on the other side,
so it makes me feel good.

1223
01:07:31,470 --> 01:07:33,889
Oh, my God, I'm gonna cry...

1224
01:07:34,056 --> 01:07:35,432
[ laughs ]

1225
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:40,396
[ Children chattering ]

1226
01:07:40,563 --> 01:07:42,690
- Y'all want this?
- What?

1227
01:07:42,856 --> 01:07:44,275
- BOTH: No.
- Why not?

1228
01:07:44,441 --> 01:07:45,609
Because.

1229
01:07:45,776 --> 01:07:49,905
Um, eat, um...sandwich.

1230
01:07:50,072 --> 01:07:52,157
All right, but you need
to eat food.

1231
01:07:52,324 --> 01:07:54,410
- We ate food.
- What you ate?

1232
01:07:54,577 --> 01:07:57,538
We ate chips.

1233
01:07:57,705 --> 01:07:59,164
BARBIE: That's not food.

1234
01:08:01,959 --> 01:08:03,752
That's it.

1235
01:08:03,919 --> 01:08:07,339
AIDEN:
I want to eat, too.

1236
01:08:11,385 --> 01:08:13,596
- The meatballs.
- Who's gonna help me?

1237
01:08:13,762 --> 01:08:16,724
- Me. Me.
- Wait, Mommy.

1238
01:08:16,890 --> 01:08:18,601
BARBIE: Hold it.

1239
01:08:18,767 --> 01:08:20,477
Anyone can sit there
and tell you,

1240
01:08:20,644 --> 01:08:22,021
"Oh, I've been through this,
I've been through that.

1241
01:08:22,187 --> 01:08:23,397
"I got through it."

1242
01:08:23,564 --> 01:08:24,898
Yeah, I've been through this,
I've been through that,

1243
01:08:25,065 --> 01:08:26,066
I got through it,
but if you open my fridge,

1244
01:08:26,233 --> 01:08:28,152
I'm there again.

1245
01:08:29,403 --> 01:08:31,405
Five days into the month.

1246
01:08:31,572 --> 01:08:32,781
And I'm gonna be there
next month

1247
01:08:32,948 --> 01:08:34,325
and the month after that.

1248
01:08:35,868 --> 01:08:37,411
It gets tiring.

1249
01:08:38,912 --> 01:08:41,582
Oh, we're good. Let it go.

1250
01:08:45,085 --> 01:08:46,754
LALANI:
I was gonna help you again.

1251
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:48,839
- No.
- That's it?

1252
01:08:51,091 --> 01:08:52,301
Lalani.

1253
01:08:53,677 --> 01:08:55,304
When I was on food stamps,

1254
01:08:55,471 --> 01:08:58,807
I didn't have to worry
about my kids not eating.

1255
01:08:58,974 --> 01:09:02,269
It was just
how can I make it stretch?

1256
01:09:02,436 --> 01:09:05,230
You know, I might have
to take a little bit from this day.

1257
01:09:05,397 --> 01:09:07,775
It was more
about balancing everything,

1258
01:09:07,941 --> 01:09:10,194
where now we have nothing.

1259
01:09:14,490 --> 01:09:17,576
[ Children chattering ]

1260
01:09:26,168 --> 01:09:27,920
I literally have nothing left.

1261
01:09:28,087 --> 01:09:30,130
Like, I'm gonna give 'em
a Hot Pocket for dinner tomorrow.

1262
01:09:30,297 --> 01:09:33,425
What am I supposed to do?
What do I give them?

1263
01:09:37,805 --> 01:09:38,889
Yeah.

1264
01:09:42,101 --> 01:09:44,311
We have to put a system
in place where people get--

1265
01:09:44,478 --> 01:09:47,731
and have enough time--to get
themselves back on their feet.

1266
01:09:47,898 --> 01:09:49,316
It's not like you get a full-time job,

1267
01:09:49,483 --> 01:09:50,693
the next month
you're off of food stamps,

1268
01:09:50,859 --> 01:09:52,152
and all is--all is well.

1269
01:09:52,319 --> 01:09:53,696
It doesn't happen that way.

1270
01:09:53,862 --> 01:09:57,491
We don't have a food policy
in this country to address hunger.

1271
01:09:57,658 --> 01:10:00,285
We never have.
We have a welfare system

1272
01:10:00,452 --> 01:10:04,498
that is very limited in its ability
to get people on their feet,

1273
01:10:04,665 --> 01:10:06,333
which is what you really want,

1274
01:10:06,500 --> 01:10:08,836
is you want to empower people
to be able to make enough money

1275
01:10:09,002 --> 01:10:11,880
to buy their own food and
take care of their own needs.

1276
01:10:12,047 --> 01:10:13,924
We don't have anything
that does that.

1277
01:10:17,261 --> 01:10:19,722
BROWN: We sort of have
this love-hate relationship

1278
01:10:19,888 --> 01:10:22,474
with poverty and the poor.

1279
01:10:22,641 --> 01:10:24,893
On the one hand, you know,
we have a wonderful history

1280
01:10:25,060 --> 01:10:27,730
of helping others
and a lot of good rhetoric.

1281
01:10:27,896 --> 01:10:31,066
"Bring us your struggling masses
yearning to be free."

1282
01:10:31,233 --> 01:10:34,194
This is the land of opportunity,
and we care about one another.

1283
01:10:34,361 --> 01:10:36,238
And we do in many ways.

1284
01:10:36,405 --> 01:10:39,992
But our care is
always predicated on the fact

1285
01:10:40,159 --> 01:10:41,869
that we're worried
that somebody else

1286
01:10:42,035 --> 01:10:44,830
is getting something for free
or something they don't deserve.

1287
01:10:46,623 --> 01:10:50,461
BECKMANN: In our country,
we put a lot of emphasis on self-reliance,

1288
01:10:50,627 --> 01:10:54,047
on everybody fending
for themselves, liberty.

1289
01:10:54,214 --> 01:10:56,884
And those are all great strengths.

1290
01:10:57,050 --> 01:11:00,304
But as a nation,
it has not been our strength

1291
01:11:00,471 --> 01:11:03,140
to do what we can to reduce poverty.

1292
01:11:04,099 --> 01:11:06,185
"Corduroy is a bear
who once lived

1293
01:11:06,351 --> 01:11:09,521
"in the toy department
of a big store."

1294
01:11:09,688 --> 01:11:11,732
BARBIE: I feel like America
has this huge stigma

1295
01:11:11,899 --> 01:11:16,862
of how families are supposed
to eat together at a table.

1296
01:11:17,029 --> 01:11:20,073
But they don't talk about
what it takes to get you there.

1297
01:11:21,408 --> 01:11:24,870
Or what's there when
you're actually at the table.

1298
01:11:25,871 --> 01:11:28,207
Bring that bucket.

1299
01:11:28,373 --> 01:11:30,918
[ Indistinct chatter ]

1300
01:11:31,084 --> 01:11:34,087
There's probably
600, 700 chefs here,

1301
01:11:34,254 --> 01:11:36,131
all really committed to helping
this problem that we have

1302
01:11:36,298 --> 01:11:37,341
with child obesity and hunger.

1303
01:11:37,508 --> 01:11:39,551
- Here, grab the leaves...
- Okay.

1304
01:11:39,718 --> 01:11:41,261
And break them in pieces like this.

1305
01:11:41,428 --> 01:11:43,555
- We're gonna toss on the spinach.
- Oh, look at that.

1306
01:11:43,722 --> 01:11:44,848
MICHELLE OBAMA:
We're working to make sure

1307
01:11:45,015 --> 01:11:46,433
that families and communities

1308
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:51,396
across this country have access
to quality affordable food.

1309
01:11:51,563 --> 01:11:53,690
[ Overlapping conversations ]

1310
01:11:55,984 --> 01:11:58,487
It's so good.

1311
01:11:58,654 --> 01:12:00,447
COLICCHIO: If they get a first taste
of broccoli and green beans

1312
01:12:00,614 --> 01:12:03,325
and peas and things like that,
it'll stick with them for life.

1313
01:12:03,492 --> 01:12:05,619
Mmm, mmm, mmm.

1314
01:12:07,287 --> 01:12:10,332
COLICCHIO: There's a lot of education
that needs to sort of happen again

1315
01:12:10,499 --> 01:12:12,292
around food,
and around what is healthy.

1316
01:12:12,459 --> 01:12:16,296
And there has gotta be a way
where healthy food--

1317
01:12:16,463 --> 01:12:19,383
fruits and vegetables--
are made accessible

1318
01:12:19,550 --> 01:12:22,177
and less expensive
than they are now.

1319
01:12:23,971 --> 01:12:25,931
NESTLE:
We're spending $20 billion a year

1320
01:12:26,098 --> 01:12:28,767
on agricultural subsidies
for the wrong foods.

1321
01:12:28,934 --> 01:12:31,770
$20 billion
would go a very long way

1322
01:12:31,937 --> 01:12:35,607
to promoting
a healthy, educated population,

1323
01:12:35,774 --> 01:12:37,067
starting with kids.

1324
01:12:37,234 --> 01:12:39,945
Now, close the book.
Put the book away.

1325
01:12:42,281 --> 01:12:43,574
Thank you. All right.

1326
01:12:43,740 --> 01:12:45,242
I want you to feel this
so you can see

1327
01:12:45,409 --> 01:12:48,328
the texture of the outside
of the honeydew melon.

1328
01:12:48,495 --> 01:12:50,038
Uh, try not to drop it.

1329
01:12:50,956 --> 01:12:53,834
Look at the color.
You kinda feel the weight.

1330
01:12:54,001 --> 01:12:55,335
What is this called?

1331
01:12:55,502 --> 01:12:56,879
KIDS: Honeydew melon.

1332
01:12:57,045 --> 01:12:59,047
Honeydew melon.

1333
01:12:59,214 --> 01:13:02,801
CHERRY: We are now--
We are pushing, if you go to the store,

1334
01:13:02,968 --> 01:13:04,678
and Mom asks you,
"What you want?"

1335
01:13:04,845 --> 01:13:08,348
Don't say chips.
Say, "I want fruit."

1336
01:13:08,515 --> 01:13:12,019
And so we're looking
for inexpensive healthy foods.

1337
01:13:13,061 --> 01:13:15,981
So that's what we're working
on now in the classroom.

1338
01:13:16,148 --> 01:13:18,442
And we're looking for alternatives.

1339
01:13:18,609 --> 01:13:20,360
Is it rough or is it smooth?

1340
01:13:20,527 --> 01:13:21,987
- KIDS: It's smooth.
- It's smooth.

1341
01:13:22,154 --> 01:13:26,158
I brought it so that when they see
it in the store, they can relate.

1342
01:13:26,325 --> 01:13:28,577
"That's a honeydew
not sliced already."

1343
01:13:28,744 --> 01:13:31,622
- Everybody ready?
- [ overlapping replies ]

1344
01:13:31,788 --> 01:13:35,667
Get set...and taste.

1345
01:13:38,879 --> 01:13:41,590
What adjectives would you use
to describe the honeydew melon?

1346
01:13:41,757 --> 01:13:44,051
Good. Juicy. Everything.

1347
01:13:44,217 --> 01:13:45,469
[ laughter ]

1348
01:13:45,636 --> 01:13:46,678
Would you buy one?

1349
01:13:46,845 --> 01:13:50,349
How many of you would buy,
or would like to buy a honeydew melon?

1350
01:13:51,433 --> 01:13:52,726
BOY: I'd buy two of 'em.

1351
01:13:52,893 --> 01:13:54,227
You would buy two.
You love 'em, huh?

1352
01:13:54,394 --> 01:13:56,772
But now,
what about how you like 'em

1353
01:13:56,939 --> 01:13:58,190
compared to chips?

1354
01:13:58,357 --> 01:13:59,816
Which one do you like better?

1355
01:13:59,983 --> 01:14:01,276
[ Overlapping answers ]

1356
01:14:01,443 --> 01:14:03,987
Honeydew! Honeydew!
Honeydew! Honeydew, baby!

1357
01:14:04,154 --> 01:14:05,280
Let's take a vote.

1358
01:14:05,530 --> 01:14:06,740
How many people love
the honeydew,

1359
01:14:06,907 --> 01:14:09,743
would prefer the honeydew
over the chips?

1360
01:14:09,910 --> 01:14:11,787
If you said--

1361
01:14:11,954 --> 01:14:14,581
1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

1362
01:14:14,748 --> 01:14:17,834
9, 10, 11 , 12.
Ooh, we're way over 50%.

1363
01:14:18,001 --> 01:14:21,213
- [ Kids cheer ]
- I love it. I love it. Mm-hmm.

1364
01:14:31,974 --> 01:14:34,935
NICHOLS: I think I go out of my way
to try to take that burden

1365
01:14:35,102 --> 01:14:38,689
and that worry away from kids
because I was there.

1366
01:14:38,855 --> 01:14:41,274
And teaching, it kind of
puts you in that natural place

1367
01:14:41,441 --> 01:14:43,568
to say, you know, yes, obviously
I can make a difference

1368
01:14:43,735 --> 01:14:45,153
in the education of a child,

1369
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:46,947
but I think it's
so much more than that.

1370
01:14:48,365 --> 01:14:52,160
It's that personal connection
that goes beyond that.

1371
01:14:52,327 --> 01:14:56,331
Last year you missed...

1372
01:14:57,249 --> 01:15:00,210
twenty days of school.

1373
01:15:00,377 --> 01:15:03,839
This year you've missed seven days.

1374
01:15:04,006 --> 01:15:06,341
And five were
when you had pink eye

1375
01:15:06,508 --> 01:15:08,010
and you couldn't be at school.

1376
01:15:08,176 --> 01:15:09,469
And I know you wanted
to be at school.

1377
01:15:09,636 --> 01:15:10,804
- Yeah, I did.
- Remember when I stopped by

1378
01:15:10,971 --> 01:15:12,014
your house
and we talked about that?

1379
01:15:12,180 --> 01:15:15,058
- Yeah.
- So do you think being...

1380
01:15:15,225 --> 01:15:18,937
My dream is to be
an honor roll student.

1381
01:15:19,104 --> 01:15:21,356
[ Reading indistinctly ]

1382
01:15:24,276 --> 01:15:26,528
My other dream is, um--

1383
01:15:26,695 --> 01:15:29,865
Have you heard of the <i>Extreme</i>
<i>Makeover: Home Edition?</i>

1384
01:15:30,032 --> 01:15:32,325
I always have a dream every night

1385
01:15:32,492 --> 01:15:34,494
that they would
come tear down our house,

1386
01:15:34,661 --> 01:15:36,329
let us go for a vacation.

1387
01:15:36,496 --> 01:15:38,457
I just wish they would come

1388
01:15:38,623 --> 01:15:40,667
and actually rescue us
from our house.

1389
01:15:42,502 --> 01:15:44,838
But we don't have a story
like they do.

1390
01:15:55,682 --> 01:15:58,518
I want my kids to have
a better life than I do.

1391
01:15:59,853 --> 01:16:02,481
Have more food,
have a bigger house, no mold.

1392
01:16:02,647 --> 01:16:05,400
And they get to do
what they want to do

1393
01:16:05,650 --> 01:16:07,569
and what they need to do.

1394
01:16:08,862 --> 01:16:10,655
And never be hungry.

1395
01:16:15,410 --> 01:16:17,037
Like, you take 'em
one at a time.

1396
01:16:17,204 --> 01:16:21,541
We know we can't help everyone,
but we can help one or two.

1397
01:16:23,293 --> 01:16:25,879
So you take those
and look at 'em, and go, "Wow.

1398
01:16:26,046 --> 01:16:28,006
"In that life,
we made a difference."

1399
01:16:37,140 --> 01:16:39,101
It's about patriotism, really.

1400
01:16:39,267 --> 01:16:41,144
Yeah, that's what it is, you know?

1401
01:16:42,187 --> 01:16:44,648
Stand up for your country,
you know?

1402
01:16:44,815 --> 01:16:46,650
How do you envision
your country, you know?

1403
01:16:46,817 --> 01:16:49,611
Do you envision it--
a country where one in four

1404
01:16:49,778 --> 01:16:51,613
of the kids are hungry?

1405
01:16:52,489 --> 01:16:55,992
What I'm hoping is that maybe
an increase in the problem

1406
01:16:56,159 --> 01:16:57,619
is part of the solution.

1407
01:16:57,786 --> 01:17:01,164
That that's gonna finally
wake people up to how--

1408
01:17:01,331 --> 01:17:04,000
You know, what dire straits
we're in here with this.

1409
01:17:06,336 --> 01:17:07,671
CHILTON:
Do we just continue to give

1410
01:17:07,838 --> 01:17:09,422
more cans of food
through the food drives?

1411
01:17:09,589 --> 01:17:11,675
That's not the answer.

1412
01:17:11,842 --> 01:17:15,428
The answer is widespread
governmental programs

1413
01:17:15,595 --> 01:17:17,848
that are focused
on the human being.

1414
01:17:19,975 --> 01:17:22,561
SHORE: I think Americans, basically,
want to do the right thing.

1415
01:17:22,727 --> 01:17:25,897
There's a lot of issues
that we could all struggle with

1416
01:17:26,064 --> 01:17:27,190
for a long time
we wouldn't know how to solve.

1417
01:17:27,357 --> 01:17:28,900
I don't know how to solve
the climate change problem,

1418
01:17:29,067 --> 01:17:30,569
you know, by myself.

1419
01:17:30,735 --> 01:17:32,445
I don't know how to come up
with a vaccine for AIDS.

1420
01:17:32,612 --> 01:17:34,364
I don't know how to,
you know, end terrorism.

1421
01:17:34,531 --> 01:17:37,450
But when it comes to hunger
in this country,

1422
01:17:37,617 --> 01:17:40,620
we know the solutions because
we've proven it in the past.

1423
01:17:42,038 --> 01:17:43,665
POPPENDIECK:
We all have a stake in this,

1424
01:17:43,832 --> 01:17:48,461
and we really need
to reclaim agricultural policy

1425
01:17:48,628 --> 01:17:50,839
as a policy on behalf of us all.

1426
01:17:54,426 --> 01:17:58,305
We're wasting billions of dollars
by not spending less to fix hunger.

1427
01:18:00,098 --> 01:18:01,516
PATEL: We all understand
that the government

1428
01:18:01,683 --> 01:18:03,143
will do the right thing only after

1429
01:18:03,310 --> 01:18:05,145
every other possibility
has been exhausted.

1430
01:18:05,312 --> 01:18:07,522
We need to bring government
to the right thing much more quickly.

1431
01:18:07,689 --> 01:18:08,940
But the only way to do that

1432
01:18:09,107 --> 01:18:10,942
is not by, you know,
saying, "Well, you know,

1433
01:18:11,109 --> 01:18:13,862
"government will take care of it,"
but by making government care.

1434
01:18:14,029 --> 01:18:15,530
We need to make this
an issue where

1435
01:18:15,697 --> 01:18:17,866
if you're not with us
on ending hunger,

1436
01:18:18,033 --> 01:18:19,492
then we're not gonna
be with you on reelection.

1437
01:18:20,702 --> 01:18:22,495
I mean, if making sure
people have enough to eat

1438
01:18:22,662 --> 01:18:25,248
is not an important issue,
then I don't know what the hell is.

1439
01:18:29,669 --> 01:18:31,213
BARBIE:
"'You are where you come from.'

1440
01:18:31,379 --> 01:18:35,008
"It is a quote that is said very often.

1441
01:18:35,175 --> 01:18:36,676
"If your mother was a single mother,

1442
01:18:36,843 --> 01:18:38,386
"you will be a single mother.

1443
01:18:38,553 --> 01:18:42,349
"If no one in your family
was a high school graduate,

1444
01:18:42,515 --> 01:18:45,810
"you will be the next one
to follow in those footsteps.

1445
01:18:45,977 --> 01:18:48,897
"Have you ever been surrounded
by the people you love,

1446
01:18:49,064 --> 01:18:52,108
"like your children,
but feel completely alone?

1447
01:18:53,860 --> 01:18:56,571
"Have you ever been in a home
with open doors,

1448
01:18:56,738 --> 01:18:58,740
"but feel trapped?

1449
01:18:59,783 --> 01:19:01,243
"Have you ever been
in a neighborhood

1450
01:19:01,409 --> 01:19:04,371
"with constant yelling,
screaming, gunshots,

1451
01:19:04,537 --> 01:19:06,957
"and fighting,
but are so accustomed to it

1452
01:19:07,123 --> 01:19:08,708
"that it puts you to sleep?

1453
01:19:10,919 --> 01:19:12,545
"I know what it's like
to have your children

1454
01:19:12,712 --> 01:19:14,547
"look at you in your eyes
and tell you they're hungry,

1455
01:19:14,714 --> 01:19:16,841
"and you have to try
to force them to go to sleep

1456
01:19:17,008 --> 01:19:19,052
"as if they did something wrong.

1457
01:19:21,263 --> 01:19:23,556
"Take time and learn
a little from each of us,

1458
01:19:23,723 --> 01:19:26,184
"because you never know
where tomorrow can take you.

1459
01:19:27,352 --> 01:19:30,272
"Remember us--
remember people like us

1460
01:19:30,438 --> 01:19:32,565
"that are here in the United States

1461
01:19:32,732 --> 01:19:34,985
"that need help,
that are not receiving it adequately.

1462
01:19:35,151 --> 01:19:39,572
"If we switched lives for a week,
could you handle the stress?

1463
01:19:40,907 --> 01:19:43,243
"If we switched salaries
for a month,

1464
01:19:43,410 --> 01:19:46,413
"would you be able to live
and still keep your pride?

1465
01:19:47,747 --> 01:19:51,584
"Are you aware of my hope
and my determination?

1466
01:19:51,751 --> 01:19:54,713
"Are you aware of my dreams
and my struggle?

1467
01:19:56,047 --> 01:19:59,592
"Are you aware of my ambition
and motivation?

1468
01:19:59,759 --> 01:20:02,470
"Are you aware that I exist?

1469
01:20:02,637 --> 01:20:06,182
"My name is Barbara Izquierdo,
and I do exist."

1470
01:20:22,282 --> 01:20:25,243
[ The Civil Wars' <i>Long Time Gone</i> ]

1471
01:20:44,596 --> 01:20:47,390
♪ Look out, Ma, look out, Pa ♪

1472
01:20:47,557 --> 01:20:50,143
♪ Look at that horizon ♪

1473
01:20:50,310 --> 01:20:52,812
♪ Something's out there
kicking up dust ♪

1474
01:20:52,979 --> 01:20:56,858
♪ The storm is coming fast ♪

1475
01:20:57,025 --> 01:20:59,652
♪ Look out, sister,
look out, brother ♪

1476
01:20:59,819 --> 01:21:02,280
♪ The river's gonna be rising ♪

1477
01:21:02,447 --> 01:21:04,991
♪ Something we've been waiting for ♪

1478
01:21:05,158 --> 01:21:08,036
♪ Oh, it's here at last ♪

1479
01:21:08,203 --> 01:21:13,249
♪ It's been a long ♪

1480
01:21:13,416 --> 01:21:16,544
♪ Long time coming ♪

1481
01:21:19,297 --> 01:21:23,718
♪ It's been a long ♪

1482
01:21:23,885 --> 01:21:27,138
♪ Long time gone ♪

1483
01:21:30,767 --> 01:21:33,478
♪ Let's all sing, let's all dance ♪

1484
01:21:33,645 --> 01:21:36,272
♪ Stomp our feet in that red clay ♪

1485
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:38,942
♪ Come on out
of those old brown fields ♪

1486
01:21:39,109 --> 01:21:41,694
♪ Watch 'em turn to gold ♪

1487
01:21:41,861 --> 01:21:44,697
♪ Watch 'em turn to gold ♪

1488
01:21:44,864 --> 01:21:50,036
♪ It's been a long ♪

1489
01:21:50,203 --> 01:21:53,248
♪ Long time coming ♪

1490
01:21:56,042 --> 01:22:00,713
♪ It's been a long ♪

1491
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:03,842
♪ Long time gone ♪

1492
01:22:05,427 --> 01:22:11,683
♪ Ooh, it's been a long ♪

1493
01:22:11,850 --> 01:22:15,103
♪ Long time coming ♪

1494
01:22:18,022 --> 01:22:22,819
♪ It's been a long ♪

1495
01:22:22,986 --> 01:22:25,947
♪ Long time gone ♪