A Place at the Table is a documentary of how Americans are not receiving the right nutrition or food. They look at different areas to see what the situation is like for these Americans. They look into the lives of Rosie a fifth grader who lives in a suburban town, Barbie a single mother of two children who just lost her job and lives in Philadelphia, Janet who is checking out the situation. As the movie progresses it talks about facts and data on how children are not being the right amount of food or nutrition. The cast contribute this to an outdated system that tries to solve the problem. They also contribute that the government and stores not helping to stop the situation. This is seen where they show the government making more subsidies to farms that produce certain food products that make into things like chips than other farms that try to grow fruit. They also make note on how even though there has been people wanting change and also thee changes made do not help out these people. The crew looked a bit later at Barbie who after three months got a job but were left for worse because she got off food stamps now had less food to feed her children. Which mentioned in the movie causes great harm to children. For they are not getting the nutrients need to grow mentally and physically. The overall story is that while America is doing something to try to fix the problem there is still many who are being harm from the inactivity that politicians are committing.