For its daily Eye on America human-interest feature, the CBS Evening News ran a report on the use of food banks by individuals formerly considered to be “high-income”. The report’s content leaves viewers to reasonably wonder why CBS never ran such items over the prior 4 years.
Watch as correspondent Mark Strassman sits down with a Connecticut mother who frequents the food bank despite a family income considered to be “middle class”:
MARK STRASSMAN: You remember going to food banks? What was it like?
CHANDRA KELSEY: The first time I did it, I cried. To be in a position where you are doing okay and then you lose everything the next day, it’s humbling. It’s scary.
STRASSMAN: And yet you’d never suspect need has lived with this family.
Household income is roughly…?
KELSEY: 150. Two people working full-time. Sometimes I work two…
