Phoenix is hungry

In my Global Poverty class I do an exercise in which the students have to develop a family budget based on minimum wage jobs with explicit goals to find an apartment and get their kids into a good college to break the cycle of poverty. It is never a pleasant discovering just how tough it can be.

One of my students sent a link to this brief article describing the current mayor of Phoenix's effort to live on a foodstamp budget for a week. He's hungry.