Hidden Harvest Food Bank

Poverty.  I don't think I understood how prevalent poverty is in this country until recently.

Back in the fall I read a book that opened my eyes to living without in this country.  The autobiographical book by Jeannette Walls is entitled The Glass Castle.  Not only did this book set me to wondering about lives lived with nothing to fall back on - wondering about what I cannot see, wondering how it comes about, how vast it is, wondering how one gets out of it - it set me specifically wondering about children and poverty.   

I know nothing, really nothing about go to bed hungry poverty.  Further, I have a pretty good hunch that most people who are living comfortably or even comfortably getting by don't know very much about it either.  Does anyone want to know? I have no idea about that either, only that this book stirred something in me that needs to know.  

I have no idea how to delve into these questions.  It will surely be a slow digging.  The food bank that will be posted here for a few days is all I have to pass on and that is barely a scratched surface.