Fernando Quiroz asked a room of about 30 people, with paper plates in front of them, to write down what they ate for dinner the night before.
“And once you do that, I want you to flip it over. What do you see?” he said. “You see an empty plate. That’s the reality que nuestra gente — our communities — are facing each and every day.”
Quiroz is the Arizona organizer for Bread for the World, a faith-based organization that advocates for policies and programs addressing hunger. He was one of a few dozen people gathered in downtown Tucson on Tuesday to discuss the impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — or HR 1 — on local families nearly one year after it became law…