Children tuck into some food on the Lunch Box bus
Millions of meals are served every week to children who do not eat properly during the school holidays.
Tennessee is one of many states that has various schemes designed to help youngsters get through the summer.
The Lunch Box is one of them, an old yellow school bus which now doubles as a cafe on wheels, touring around the small town of Rogersville.
Volunteer driver Paul Beckner told Sky News: "Oh yes the need is here - we have kids that come on and that say they don't have any food in the house.
"We have other kids who come who, regardless of what we give them, eat every bite and are glad to get it - so the need is definitely here."
Comment: The true unemployment figure in the U.S. is 37%.
All these decades the U.S. establishment has decried 'socialism', preaching neo-liberal predatory capitalism to the whole world and imposing restrictions on other countries doing this, but now when the chips are down it cannot escape the reality that it has unwittingly created: A HUGE number of Americans that are dependent on social welfare as a result of their 'downsizing' millions of jobs to China and elsewhere in their chase of PROFIT$.
If they don't give America's unemployed (and all their dependants, something like 150 million people) some means to eat, it's game over for the US of A as millions revolt on the streets.
Actual U.S. unemployment is 37.2%, not "6.7%", record number of households on food stamps in 2013
Incredible Truth: 36.8% of Americans over 16 are unemployed