of stai stereotypes of just whos in poverty. >> any one of your fellow peers, colleagues or fellow parishioners may be hungry, but you don't know that about them because people don't want to advertise that about themselves. there's lots of people out there who do not have enough to eat until next payday. there's a lot of working people who give their last five bucks to their kid for lunch and they go without. and so that's a different face of hunger than people are thinking of hunger. >> reporter: pooler, who lost her job as a medical assistant two years ago, at first resisted the idea of going on food stamps. instead she relied on places like this community cafe which serves hot lunch to people in need. but one day, when she was turned away from a food bank that had run out of food, she realized she needed something more reliable. >> i decided to apply for food stamps at that time. and i was awarded them. and i really cant tell you what that's meant to my overall ability to function,...