Fighting Hunger and Shame in a Pandemic

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Millions of families across the country have lost some of their income because of the pandemic and are struggling to put food on the table. In today’s episode, CNN’s Senior National Correspondent Kyung Lah visits one family in Los Angeles. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Come here.
0:01.0	Oh, come on.
0:02.0	Look at me.
0:03.0	Look at me.
0:04.0	You're going to go play in school?
0:05.0	Why don't you want to go?
0:06.0	Why?
0:07.0	Why?
0:08.0	It took a while for Rosarad Riga to coax her daughters out of bed that day.
0:23.0	Three-year-old Alejandra and 12-year-old Terry Sherabad and 13-year-old Yeliza sleeps on the
0:29.0	couch.
0:30.0	Rose is a 37-year-old single mom with three daughters.
0:34.6	At the beginning of the year, she had a routine going.
0:37.1	She would drop off her youngest Alejandra at daycare and then clock into work at the Los
0:42.1	Angeles International Airport.
0:44.6	Things weren't amazing, but Rosarad family did okay.
0:48.7	Until the pandemic hit.
0:50.7	Since April, Rose has been struggling to put food on the table breakfast is what she
0:56.2	scrounged up from the day before.
0:58.8	This fall, a CNN team followed Rose as she went about her morning routine.
1:04.4	We're going to have syrup that we got from school with some milk.
1:12.8	I'll be the breakfast for today.
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