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. >> our focus hunger in america o and marisol bello is a reporter for usa today. this headline a silent crisis hl workingin for 49 millionfor americans. what did you learn? >> guest: the story that you're talking about actually was a story that was based off ofa repo af a new report that feedingamec america wrote and published earlier this month and basically found 49 million americans who are food insecure. food insecure is not the same as hunger. basicallyot it is having the havi the feeling that you don't have f enough money to pay for patricia's t meals. so we found that since the recession that number hasn'trecs gone down.gone d that number has remained pretty steady since 2007, 2008. >> host: there is one quote is want to highlight because these hee the saddest thing is when my oldest son say mommy how you can eatg my food. >> guest: that's pretty sad. i was talking to a family in philadelphia. a married couple with three children including twins and t they have moved around quite ab, bit trying to find a portable housing.their their children have epilepsy a

marisol bello is a reporter for usa today. think you for being with us. headline, a crisis working for 49 million americans. what did you learn? based this was a story off a report that feeding america -- published earlier this month, it basically found there are 49 million americans who are food insecure. that is not the same is not the same as hunger. basically, food insecure is having the feeling you do not have enough money to pay for nutritious meals. since thehat recession, the number has not gone down. it has her main pretty steady since 2007 and 2008. one quote i want to highlight. he would say, the saddest thing is when my oldest son would say, mommy, you could eat my food. was pretty sad. i talked to a family in philadelphia, a married couple and twins. they had moved around quite a bit, trying to find afford housing. their children have epilepsy and asthma. time to find homes -- trying to find homes that were safe and not filled with mold and mice and cockroach infested, trying to balance all of that, they ended up having to forego meals and cu

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