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About 18.4 million — or 8.8% American households — reported there was either sometimes or often not enough to eat. That was down from 10.7% in the first half of March.
"A Place at the Table forcefully makes the case that hunger has serious economic, social and cultural implications for the nation." - Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times [ 10 ] "The film explains with devastating simplicity why so many go hungry in a country with more than enough food to go round."
Hunger in the United States of America affects millions of Americans, including some who are middle class, or who are in households where all adults are in work. The United States produces far more food than it needs for domestic consumption— hunger within the U.S. is caused by some Americans having insufficient money to buy food for ...
Anti-hunger group Feeding America found in May that hungry people in the United States were facing a $33.1 billion shortfall in money to meet their food needs, in part due to higher food prices.
In his opening address on December 2, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon vowed "to put an end to hunger in America…for all time." [1] The three-day gathering came at the end of a decade of social, cultural, and political change which had resulted in a sudden awareness of the widespread malnutrition and hunger afflicting many poor in the United ...
Hunger doesn’t happen because we don’t have enough food. In fact, we hear stories of Maryland farmers who find themselves facing surpluses they can’t sell, meaning wasted effort and wasted food.