skipping meals, sending their children to family and friends homes to eat. borrowing food, borrowing money and then coming to one of our 3,000 food pantries soup kitchens or homeless shelters during the last two weeks of the month trying to be able to get enough food to feed themselves. it s a working parent earning less than $7.20 an hour or $15,000 a year. i want to follow up on two things there. one, your point these are often working folks, that this is poverty that is associated with people actually having jobs. and the other thing the way that this hits kids, one of the things we see in schools, for example, is during the last week of the month often the more discipline problems because kids are actually coming to school hungry. is that the sort of thing that you re pointing out to us here? absolutely. and we pay a horrible high cost for hunger. hunger is merely a symptom of poverty and in our state, we ll spend $6.97 billion in