During the pandemic, an increasing number of families are turning to government support and food banks to feed their families. “It was life or death. We were either going to starve or we were lucky enough to qualify for SNAP benefits,” Veronica Bedico, an unemployed mother of three, told CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich. https://cnn.it/3oTXivn This originally aired on Feb. 4, 2021. The numbers and statistics on the right reflect that date. | CNN