Poverty is real. It is a way of life that is real for a large portion of our county and for 5.3 million Americans. Poverty is depressing, isolating, hard, tiring, stressful, and just plain terrible. It is a real-life nightmare of not having enough food for your family, or if you will have shelter, heat, water, or the medicine you need to live.
It is having to make the choice between paying your rent or paying your utilities; living without heat or living without a home; having food twice a day or having food every day of the month. It’s a lot of…
