35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.
I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
