I never got a chance to meet Tom Nelson. He is one of the tens of millions of poor Americans we don't see. He was an older man who worked at the food bank in Huntington, West Virginia, handing out one grocery sack of canned food to people who can't feed their families on what they earn. He worked at the Huntington Area Food Bank out of the goodness of his heart, but also because the job paid him a little extra a month so that he could feed his own family. A few months ago, the food bank wasn't able to pay Mr. Nelson any longer - primarily because it has not received funding promised by West Virginia for nearly a year. To stretch his Social Security check to cover groceries, Mr. Nelson tried to stretch his blood pressure medicine. The cause of his death was listed as heart attack, but the truth is he died trying to feed his family.