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Even before the stock-market crash last month evoked fears of a recession, some 20 million people in the U.S. were going hungry on a regular basis. So says Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America, a report released last week by the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, a public health advocacy group. Using government figures and its own survey of some 25 depressed areas in eight states, the task force concluded that despite steady economic growth, 32.4 million people live at or below the federal poverty level ($9,069 for a family of three), and many of them rely...
...group's director, Larry Brown, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, says that while hunger in the U.S. is nowhere near Third World levels, poor families regularly "miss meals, cut down and go without for a couple of days." The Agriculture Department attacked the report's accuracy, saying that food-stamp spending has risen 12% since...
...With the economy in a precarious situation, all programs are going to be scrutinized carefully," said Judy A. Depontbriand, field director of the PTFHA. Depontbriand said, "It is not at all unrealistic to push for restored funding for hunger programs [because] public programs that feed people are cost effective...
...study's authors, who are all physicians, took a dual approach to analyzing domestic hunger, Depontbriand said. Researchers visited poverty-stricken areas and reviewed statistical information before writing their report...
Depontbriand said that physicians are uniquely qualified to study hunger because they "are trained to be careful listeners" and are skilled at conducting field interviews. She added that doctors are also qualified to study the hunger crisis because of the prevalent view that hunger is a public health problem...