The LA Regional Food Bank and Salvation Army Help Struggling LAX Employee

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Americans have their jobs. Many now fear their temporary layoffs will become permanent. CNN's Kyung Lah joins us with one family's struggle to put food on the table, Kyung.
- [Alison] This was Rodriguez, at her full-time job at LAX airport. She worked for Qantas Airlines Cargo, making more than $20 an hour.
- I thought everything will be good. I thought you know what? I have money for my rent, I have money for the food, I don't have to worry about the girl's health. I never thought that on Wednesday I will show up to work, but no, it wasn't that way. You could lose your job in any time.
- [Kyung] How about the food? I mean how much--
- With the food that's where we struggled more.
- [Kyung] Tell me about that struggle.
- The struggle is sometimes we eat sometimes we don't.
- [Alison] What she manages is cheap, unhealthy food. Rodriguez says she's applied for 50 jobs. 30 interviews later, still, nothing. Her unemployment application stalled, part of the more than 1 million stuck in a log jam in California system. Her car, and most of her furniture repossessed. She's months behind on rent.
- Then when we go to the laundromat, we see homeless washing themselves. And one day, if I don't go back to work, I'm gonna be one of them. Y'all live check by check, but now, it's not check, it's a box. Box that I have to stretch out for seven days.
- [Alison] That weekly box is donated food from the LA Food Bank and Salvation Army.
- [Woman] So you taking notes?
- [Alison] While her older daughter's learn virtually on public school laptops.
- Who's ready for lunch?
- [Alison] Alejandra gets free childcare and lunch at the Salvation Army. Too young to understand a virus's impact on her family.
- My youngest she wants what she sees, but I tell her mommy I can't. I have to tell her tomorrow so she could forget.
- [Kyung] And every day it's tomorrow?
- Yeah, everything's tomorrow.
- [Alison] Food banks across the country have seen hours-long lines as record unemployment devastates working families.
- [Man] So we do have our peas.
- [Alison] At the Salvation Army food bank in Los Angeles, they fed 10 times the number of people as last year.
- It is not like it happened for a week or two weeks, it's been happening for months. And even though we're trying our best to help, we know that we're barely scratching the surface 'cause we can only do so much with the limited resources that we have.
- They shouldn't go through this. They don't have to be worried like, "How are we gonna eat the next day." Like, "My mom has to go look for food." Or, "Has my mum eaten." And they shouldn't worry about that. Like I should be working and they should be just worried about school and their future . It just hurts.
- Now the problem is worse among Latino and black families, especially the rates of poor nutrition that has spiked to some 25 to 30% during the pandemic. And one last thing, Alison, the Salvation Army says on those days that they can give out fresh produce the line wraps around their building and down the block, Alison.
- Kyung, this is horrible. And how can her unemployment checks be tied up in bureaucratic red tape?
- It's a million people in California and it is that fraud investigation that the state is buried in. And also the unemployment system across the country, is backlogged and that is a systemic problem that's happening to a lot of the working class, depending on those unemployment checks.
- Oh my gosh, Kyung, thank you so much for your reporting. That is, every single one of these stories is so heartbreaking. And when you realize how many people are in this situation, it's just almost overwhelming.
- There's so much need. There is so much need out there and just look at the face of that child. Look at the face of that child.
- For more information about how you can help those impacted by this hunger crisis, You can go to cnn.com/impact. They need your help. This morning, well, actually the last night you witnessed.

[@robmichael8136]

Oh please, this women has never skipped a meal in her life.

[@deepfakesforreal9487]

Why does every sob story has to show a single mom? Maybe thats the main issue in the first place. In a normal traditional family generally one at least will have a job when the other loses theirs. Just saying

[@colorizedenhanced-silentmo5018]

Hey there, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. it's surprisingly attractive video. thanks. :)

[@kesha4732]

Maybe diy

[@asenathdagraca1401]

THE FAMINE HAS BEGUN AND WHEN IN FULL SWING ACROSS THE COUNTRY MANY WILL DIE FROM STARVATION. TURN TO JESUS NOW! HE WILL SUSTAIN HIS PEOPLE!

[@kalijasin]

Christians in the USA replaced God with Jesus and Jesus with Trump and now look what is happening?

[@asenathdagraca1401]

@@kalijasin The Lord is placing Trump in office for a second term But unfortunately some people have put Trump in the place of God