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Article: Should America be measured by its 3.5 million millionaires ... or by its 30 million hungry?(report on hunger and poverty in America)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- December 21, 1998
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The volatile stock market has soared beyond any reasonable expectation. So has hunger among Americans--up 50% since 1985. What's going on here?
For twenty-three years, the Institute for Food and Development Policy--Food First, co-founded by Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappe, has studied hunger in the world's poorest countries. Now we're uncovering the same dynamics of suffering operating here at home.
We want to share our findings with you because effective action must be grounded in understanding, no matter how much the analysis might be at odds with conventional wisdom. There is something we can and must do about hunger in America, ...