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I was listening to NPR’s great show, “To the Point With Warren Olney,” last night and the subject was the new poverty numbers. Olney interviewed representatives from various food banks from around the country and then interviewed policy experts from Washington to give a somewhat balanced view of what is happening in America today.

Perhaps the most heartbreaking part of the discussion is when one of the regional representatives (this one was from Arizona) talked about how former contributors to her food bank were now customers. Nobody in middle-class America wants to hear that story.

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