Soup kitchens busy in Spain

The World

The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from a suburb of Madrid, Spain, where the local government is organizing soup kitchens to help feed those who have recently lost their jobs. The unemployment rate in Spain is high, and many of the new clients at soup kitchens are from the middle class.

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