CBS’s ’Eye on America’ Item on Food Banks Has Very Interesting Timing

MRC Latino | April 18, 2025
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MARK STRASSMAN: You remember going to food banks? What was it like?

CHANDRA KELSEY: The first time I did it, I cried. To be in a position where you are doing okay and then you lose everything the next day, it's humbling. It's scary.

STRASSMAN: And yet you’d never suspect need has lived with this family. 

Household income is roughly…?

KELSEY: 150. Two people working full-time. Sometimes I work two jobs.

STRASSMAN: How can you make $150,000 and be food insecure?

KELSEY: That's not what you bring home after taxes. You know, we have mortgage, insurance. We've got one kid on their way to college, one in college. Something as small as a $1,000 expense could throw things off significantly.