Ending Hunger in America, 2014 Hunger Report Full Report | Page 50
BOX 1.1
“THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE LIKE ME.”
In 2010, Sary Dobhran was unemployed and struggling to get by in Portland, Oregon, on
$400 a month in public assistance. She and her three-year old son were living in a one-room
apartment and things were looking desperate.
Sary’s life had been plunged into turmoil when the father of her son died while she was still
pregnant. Sary has a college degree in environmental studies
and speaks four languages, but that wasn’t enough to help land
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her a job in the worst economy since the Great Depression.
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