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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Nearly 16 million children in this country don’t always have access to the food they need. A growing body of research indicates, the younger they are, the more serious the long-term impact can be, a key concern, making sure the very youngest and pregnant women are getting the proper nutrition.
Starting in 2010, a program under the health care reform law made that idea more of a possibility in many states.
Hari Sreenivasan has our report on one effort in Northern Arkansas.
HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour): Tori Moon always thought life on her own would look different than this. At 20, she lives in a budget motel in Harrison, Arkansas, eats donated food when it’s available and is now several months pregnant. Without much family in the area and a fiancé who works long hours, she spends much of her time feeling alone.
TORI MOON: It was really hard for me to make friends, being pregnant, because we live in the Bible Belt, and a lot of people around here don’t believe in being pregnant before marriage.
HARI SREENIVASAN: But Moon can count on at least one person dropping by regularly.
Every other week, Deena Tougaw sits down with Moon to discuss ways of staying healthy during pregnancy.
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