caviar on the house floor. we heard tatiana talking about children, about her children and how this affects them. your group deals primarily with childhood hunger. a report you put out earlier this year says, households with children are nearly twice as likely to be food insecure as households without children. over 3.9 million american families have children that have not had access to adequate, nutritious foods. what kind of impact could this have on our children? let s set the context. this bill came two weeks after the federal government released statistics that said there were 17 million households in this country that at some point during the last year didn t get enough to eat because they couldn t afford it. it came just two days after the census bureau said there were still record numbers of kids in poverty. it comes after four decades of bipartisan support for the s.n.a.p. program. you heard from bob dole this
any of you kids see surf s up ? i m big z! we think one of the most important things we can do to end childhood hunger is to have universal breakfast in schools. another thing that is very important is that there are summer meal programs that are available to kids. no kid hungry is all about making people aware of the programs that are in the state. sometimes in our lives it affects me in a personal way thinking about what that would feel like if i wasn t able to provide for my my kids. but also even on a patriotic way, we can t compete with the rest of the world if our kids aren t in good shape. join the movement. impact your world. impact your world. go to cnn.com/impact. captions by vitac www.vitac.com
ending childhood hunger here in america. according to the u.s.d.a. we currently have over 16 million children who are struggling with hunger. 1 in 5 of our kids. any of you kids see surf s up? i m big z! oh, i remember. i think one of the most important things that we can do to end childhood hunger is to have universal breakfast in schools. another thing that is very important is that there are summer meal programs that are available to kids. no kid hungry is about being aware of programs in the state. sometimes in our lives it affects me in a personal way if i wasn t able to provide for my kids. lean on me but also, patriotic way we continue compete with the rest of the world if our kids aren t in good shape. join the movement. impact your world. go to cnn.com/impact.
about on break, long form article in the post about attempting to address childhood hunger. this is not a foreign problem. this is a problem in american cities. one in four kids in this country is somehow dependent on the government to eat, whether through free reduced breakfast and lunch at schools or snap program. or wick. when school is out in the summer, there becomes a problem of getting nutrition to kids. this is an amazing piece in the washington post about a bus going through rural appalachia for kids who weren t able to get to school to get the meal for kids. we saw welfare structured, a congress that isn t interested in 7.7% unemployment, cutting unemployment benefits. every part of the social safety net is hacked away. by the way, all you women with unplanned pregnancies, you re not going to have to have
exci excited about this partnership and blessed that we re able to give back to an organization that has for over 25 years been trying to end childhood hunger, you know, this organization was started by billy shore and his sister debby, 25 years ago and what they do, every day, is try to supply food for children at school as well as during the summer and i feel so we both feel so blessed that we re in a place in our lives now, that we can continue to give back, because you know, what we talk about in the book all the time, is how one simple gesture can make an enormous difference. how one act of kindness can change a person s life. mike: laura and maurice, god bless you. what a wonderful and needed the new year. thank you, god bless you, maurice, thank you. well, emotions can affect your judgment and could lead to self-destructive behavior.