Homelessness and hunger is a debilitating and a misunderstood epidemic in America. Homelessness is often negatively associated with unfit people, the mentally ill, and drug addicts. As for hunger, since it is not physically evident in some cases, individuals don’t see the hardships that families, especially ones who are not eligible for government aid, face in struggling to make ends meet. The homeless population in America includes veterans (8% of the homeless population), youth groups without adults under the age of 24, the LGBTQ youth, domestically abused victims and the list goes on (“2016’s Shocking Homelessness Statistics,” 2016). All these individuals have likely had certain experiences in their lifetime that did not provide them with the opportunity to progress and avoid the crisis of homelessness and hunger.
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