how she is coping. she prepared hardy meals but food was often scarce as her food stamps ran out well before the end of the month. kids, i always make theirs first. they always get plenty. it s just the adults that usually end up going without. reporter: sick of feeling poor. vulnerable and powerless, the stress was often too much for sunny. i don t like to see my kids hungry. i hate asking other people to do stuff for my kids. when you re so poor, it really makes you feel like you can t do anything for your own kids. you feel really, really bad. you feel like everybody else is doing everything for your kids and you just can t do anything. if they need something and you don t have the money, there s no jobs, you can t get a job. and when i have the money to get what they want or what they need and beg everybody you know to take care of your kids, it makes you feel like really crappy. contrary to what people think about the poor, these people
my kids hungry. i hate asking other people to do stuff for my kids but when you re so poor, it makes you feel like crap. you can t do anything for your own kids. you feel really, really bad. you feel like everybody else is doing everything for your kids and you just can t do anything. if they need somebody and you don t you don t have the money, there s no jobs. you didn t get a job to be able to have the money to get what they want or need. and to beg everybody you know to take care of your kids. it makes you feel really crappy. that woman s name is sunny mash and represents a growing trend in this country, chuck. and savannah. there s a 30% increase in the number of people in food lines in just the last two years and this is not usa problem in southeast ohio although that is an area devastated general as n generationally and by the end of this year, according to a duke university study, 22% of