Ending Child Hunger in America

PPI: Ending Child Hunger in America - a memo for the next president by Joel Berg and Tom Freedman:

"First, the bad news: Hunger and food insecurity are soaring in America, and our faltering economy will only make things worse. The federal government reports that nearly 700,000 poor children in the United States directly experience hunger, and more than 12 million children live in low-income families that suffer from food insecurity, which means they struggle to meet their daily nutritional needs.

Now the good news: By implementing your courageous campaign pledge to end child hunger in the United States by 2015, you have a win-win opportunity to strike a blow against a major social problem while also stimulating our ailing economy. Through practical reforms of existing nutrition programs, along with new targeted spending, your administration could end childhood hunger in America [...]"