Food and Hunger

Food Access

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  Corner Store

  Mother: Crystal R
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  Breakfast

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Walking

  Mother: Whitney H

  "I have a job and I’m barely making it, so imagine how many people walking around hungry, with a smile, trying to fake it." 
  

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  Groceries

  Mother: Tianna G

  This was somebody else's cart.  I was looking at how much their cart was loaded.  There is so much food out there!

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  Street Corner

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Breakfast

  Mother: Crystal S

  With the money food stamps provide, I was able to feed her breakfast that morning.  Without it what would she have eaten? I wanted to show that with the help she was able to eat breakfast that morning.  She had cereal. She had milk. She didn’t have to go without. 

   

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  A healthy meal

  Mother: Janelle R

  We get the Welfare and that’s what feeds us, the Welfare. The food… it gets smaller but it never… it never runs out because right now my mom lets me keep my Food Stamps so I’m able to make it last.

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  Hiding food

  Mother: Janelle R

  Certain food I have to leave in the room because if I don’t [people in the house will] eat it… they’ll go into stuff and they’ll eat stuff. Like my mom’s boyfriend’s friend, he lives here. And he also gets food stamps but I get more than him so when his food is gone he eats my food. And when somebody comes and asks you, “could I have some food?” and you have it, you wanna give it to them. But then you wanna say no, because what if my kids don’t have food to eat the next day? I hate [hiding my food], I really do. But I have to do it because I want to make sure they have something to eat.

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  WIC accepted here

  Mother: Tiffany R
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  Ice cream

  Mother: Gale G
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  A balanced meal

  Mother: Gale G
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  Running out of formula

  Mother: Tangela F

  That was what I was left with. Four cans of milk and a box of cereal. So we had to go out and buy more milk because WIC doesn’t give you enough milk. You know, when the kids get bigger, they want more milk. Just one can is like two bottles for her and she drinks like four to five bottles a day. It’s just not enough, and it costs five dollars for one can.

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  Empty freezer

  Mother: Pauline S
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  Access Card

  Mother: Quiana  H

  "This has no money on it.  It's just a piece of plastic."

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  Shopping Cart

  Mother: Quiana  H

  "This picture is of my shopping cart after I went into the store thinking that I had money on my Access card.  I didn't know before I went shopping that my food stamps had been cut off.  I had to put everything back."