Word: hungering
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...fact that there was a riot over something that silly compared to issues such as nuclear weapons and hunger is indicative of the innocence and immaturity that all changed in the 60s," he says. "[The protest] shows how little we had on our minds," says John G. Ryden '61, the director of Yale University Press...
...paperwork required for food stamp recipients and administrators has increased so dramatically during the last five years that the program's effectiveness has been impaired, concluded the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America. The group drew national attention through an earlier study released in January when it identified 150 American "hunger counties" in which only one-third of eligible citizens receive food stamps...
...food stamp program does not now serve a smaller proportion of eligible people than it did five years ago, said Bode, who last month wrote a letter to President Derek C. Bok criticizing the task force's earlier "hunger county" report...
...member hunger task force also found that 40 to 45 percent of the eligible people don't apply to receive food stamps because they don't know they can participate in the program...
Still making a social statement out of rock 'n' roll, Baby Boomers in huge numbers flock to concerts like Live Aid and Farm Aid. "Instead of running for office to abolish hunger, they go out and feed somebody," says University of Massachusetts Public Service Professor Ralph Whitehead Jr. "Baby Boomers are highly skeptical of institutional tools. They believe in J.F.D.I.--just frigging do it." And even if charity concerts have not proved to be the most efficient or speedy way to channel money to the poor and helpless, for many Baby Boomers joining hands and swaying to the music...