as many as 15% of american homes at some point during the month don't have enough food to put on the table. >> yeah. the scariest part of yesterday was, the requested that two months ago ben bernanke was saying, hey, the recovery's proceeding along and yesterday they said it is going to be a lot more modest. at biggest part of his statement was it's all about jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs. unemployment rate is not expected to come down for the foreseeable future. even the white house is saying that. you would expect them to have a rosier outlook. >> basically the pain is going to continue? >> yes, but there are some signs of -- i mean at last things are a little bit more stable than they were. i hate to say the pain will continue but it's the getting out of the hole that's going to take a little bit while yet. >> lex haris from cnn dot money.com, thanks so much. we continue with our special series "addicted." abusive painkillers spiraling out of control and in some cases