Hungry in the land of milk and honey?

A place at the table (2012)
On one end, the richest economy (second richest lately) has to deal with obesity and life style related diseases associated with abundance, they also have to deal with a quarter of the population who live with food insecurity. Food insecurity refers to people who are essentially are deprived of balanced nutritious food due to their lack of resources or unsure of their meal at their table!
The problem of hunger in US had been identified as early as the early 1930s, after the Great Depression. The state launched lunch programmes at schools to ensure children's health- to ensure healthy recruits to send to war!
As the years went on, government subsidy went mainly towards corn planters and very little to planters of fruits and vegetables. With the allocation of free food program going mainly towards administration and transportation charges, very little is actually left for food. With the price of nutritious foods escalating, the providers can only provide junk food and sugary drinks - both made cheap by government subsidy.
This documentary goes through the hardship of 3 victims of food insecurity and the crusade of health workers and social workers to go the extra mile to make their plight be heard.
A preteen girl from interior Colorado faces a bleak future as her home is devoid of food and had had gone hungry many times. A single mother from urban Philadelphia with two young kids is juggling between inability to feed her kids, unable to get a job and unable to educate herself because of her dependants. Even when she gets a job, the income is insufficient to support her family and her aid is automatically stopped.
A Mississippi mother is bogged with her morbidly obese son who is inflicted with medical conditions as a result of his weight problem. The type of food that they can are the least healthiest but that is the only thing they can afford.
Even a policeman with a regular job finds it difficult to make ends meet with the ever increasing cost of living.
As the the people in power are caught in a betwixt and between trying to keep their lobbyists happy, small platers are struggling to stay relevant. Distribution of junk food is far superior and can reach all nooks of the country. Religious institutions and soup kitchens feel up the vacuum to feed the hungry mouths.
The 1980s marks the time when this problem started hitting the roof. Healthy food started becoming expensive and junk food became cheaper. The perception of a malnourished person also changed from who appears skin and bones to one with a weighty problem!