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.
The discussion centered on the 450,000 Arizona families who lost their food assistance since the federal legislation was enacted and how the restrictions coming to Medicaid (known as ACCCHS in Arizona) in January could cut 420,000 people off their health insurance.
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