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I am hard-pressed to believe that there are thousands of people [in most/every state] who do not have enough money for food. The only folks who I can believe are in a money crunch are the elderly who either have no family or are neglected. Otherwise, unless you are mentally incompetant, you should be able to feed your family *99%* of the time (the 1% is for those weird bad-luck circumstances that do occur).
If you shop for clothes anywhere other than GoodWill, you can afford food.
If you have cable or satellite TV, you can afford food.
If you go to the movies, you can afford food.

A few years ago, my kids spent the night at the house of a young couple, friends of ours, as babysitting while we went out.
We were appalled to discover the next morning, that there was no food in the house beyond the spagetti they ate for dinner. No milk, no juice, no cereal, nothing. And, these people had no money to go buy any food. That night, they had gone to the store (with my kids) and spent their last money on Roller Coaster Tycoon (computer game).
THAT is the nonsense that leaves people with no food most of the time: a complete lack of any sense whatsoever.
Needless to say, the kids never stayed over there again.