By Allie Robinson / Bristol Herald Courier
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Rushing from agency to agency for help, trying to make the money last as long as the week, and struggling to put food on the table is an all-too-real existence for about 20 percent of the population in Bristol.
About 75 city leaders got a glimpse of that struggle Thursday afternoon, in a poverty simulation exercise at the YWCA-Bristol. The event was organized by community leaders in partnership with LEAD Bristol, the United Way of Bristol and the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church