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Amanda Bornfree – Chicago
A couple of weeks after I found out my husband and I were expecting our first child, we lost our health insurance. We were disappointed, as is to be expected. I had been excited about going forth with...
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Jennifer Brown – Charleston, S.C.
Photo: Joseph Molieri I’ve worked in the human services field since 1997, save a period of time between May 2010 and February 2011, when I found myself unemployed. It was also during this time – in...
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Dawn Phipps – Boise, ID
Photo: Joseph Molieri Many people think those of us who need food assistance are nothing but deadbeats and leeches, but the truth is that most of us have jobs; we have families who need to eat and...
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Heather Turner – Annandale, Va.
In 2007, Heather Rude-Turner was living a comfortable, middle-class life with her husband and two children. But her husband started drinking heavily and became extremely abusive. Rude-Turner knew this...
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Alli Morris – Bend, Ore.
Pregnant and homeless at 16, Alli Morris moved into a maternity homeless shelter called Grandma’s House in Bend, Ore. When her son, André, was born on Oct. 31, 2010, doctors quickly discovered that he...
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Sheila Edwards Howard – Chicago
Sheila Edwards Howard has lived on both sides of the poverty line—and she has advocated for poor and hungry people from both sides of that line as well. Edwards Howard grew up in the violent “K-Town”...
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Barbie Izquierdo – Philadelphia
Photo: Laura Elizabeth Pohl for Bread for the World Barbie Izquierdo is a young mother who has found the task of feeding her children challenging. Having lost her job during the recession, she was...
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Tara Marks – Pittsburgh
Photo: Laura Elizabeth Pohl for Bread for the World Tara Marks’ story of poverty so extreme that she skipped meals to provide enough for her son is an inspiration. Pell grants; the Special...
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Ofelio – Washington, D.C.
Photo: Joseph Molieri/Bread for the World Ofelio has built an effective small business preparing the traditional tamales that are much in demand in Washington, D.C. He immigrated to the United...
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