New Plan to End Child Hunger in the U.S.

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Saturday November 29, 2008 · 4:18 AM PST

2008/11/29 · 04:18

This week, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) published a paper by Tom Freedman and me, "Ending Child Hunger in America" for their "Memos to the Next President" series. It presents a plan to enable President Obama to achieve his announced goal of ending child hunger in America by 2015.

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 6:15 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 18:15

Michael Pollan makes a number of important points about the failures of our global food system, but continues to gloss over the harsh realities faced by tens of millions of low-income, food insecure Americans.

Joel Berg

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 8:24 AM PDT

2008/10/19 · 08:24

The Obama/Biden campaign issued a detailed (two and a half page) statement this week on how they would end child hunger in the U.S. by 2015. Given that 35.5 million Americans – including more than 12 million children – live in homes that can’t afford enough food, this is a huge issue. The McCain campaign also issued a statement on domestic hunger.

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