What's it Like When the Hunger Challenge Never Ends? A Family Living on Food Stamps

Hunger Challenge participants are lucky - we only have to live for seven days on a food stamp budget. For many people, it's just life, non-stop, with no end in sight. Here's a National Public Radio series about a family from Carlisle, PA, struggling to make ends meet. They live on an income of $18,000 and have to stretch $600 in food stamps to feed two adults, an eight year old boy and two teenage girls.

A Daily Fight To Find Food: One Family's Story

Aired: July 19, 2010 (9:01)

Eating Nutritiously: A Struggle When Money Is Scarce

July 20, 2010 (6:58)