Child poverty and family economic hardship: 10 important questions.

The National Center for Children in Poverty questions how poverty is measured, saying the federal guidelines designed in the 1960s are outdated. To read about the questions this group at Columbia University is posing, click here.

Virginia Williamson has gone to the Savannah Baptist Center for about 30 years for help with her grocery needs.

Williamson, 74, lives on a pension from her late husband and a small Social Security check and depends on the center to help keep food in the house.

But with food and fuel costs rising, the center and other food providers are finding their cupboards more bare than usual. To read the full story, click here.