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  • Poll reveals 2009 hunger rate in US [18.2%]

    01/31/2010 10:58:35 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 38 replies · 733+ views
    Press TV ^ | January 31, 2010
    A new survey indicates that nearly one in five US households could not afford to buy enough food at least once during the past year. An anti-hunger group said the poll found 18.2 percent of households reported "food hardship" -- lacking money to buy enough food -- in 2009. The figure reflects a higher percentage than the government's "food insecurity" rating of 14.6 percent of households, or 49 million people, in 2008. "There are no hunger-free areas of America," Jim Weill of the Food Research and Action Center was quoted as saying by Reuters. He added that he hoped President...
  • When Handouts Keep Coming, the Food Line Never Ends

    11/19/2007 7:12:53 AM PST · by shrinkermd · 53 replies · 82+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 18 November 2007 | Mark Winne
    ...America's far-flung network of emergency food programs -- from Second Harvest to tens of thousands of neighborhood food pantries -- constitutes one of the largest charitable institutions in the nation. Its vast base of volunteers and donors and its ever-expanding distribution infrastructure have made it a powerful force in shaping popular perceptions of domestic hunger and other forms of need. But in the end, one of its most lasting effects has been to sidetrack efforts to eradicate hunger and its root cause, poverty. ...The cutback in federal support for social welfare programs triggered by the Reagan administration in the 1980s...