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...women's groups estimated that 4 million of the 6 million children from families with incomes of $2,000 or less were not getting free or reduced-price meals, partly because local school districts set wildly differing eligibility standards. The nation was dismayed by repeated disclosures of continuing hunger and even starvation in parts of the country. Years of rapid noninflationary economic growth encouraged the belief that America could wipe out all social problems by determined expansion of Government assistance...
...mood. In language that could have been taken from any liberal Democratic manifesto, Nixon proclaimed: "Something very like the honor of American democracy is at issue. America has come to the aid of one starving people after another. But the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time." At his behest, Congress in 1970 passed amendments to the National School Lunch Act that gave the program its current structure...
...people doubt, either, that the program nationally has played a valuable part in dramatically reducing American hunger and malnutrition in recent years. But the inflation of the late 1970s reached an intolerable point, dictating an effort to chop the huge budget deficits that have been feeding it. In the view of David Stockman, Reagan's chief budget slasher, school lunch subsidies are "a perfect example of an entitlement program that should be reviewed. It entitles a lot of middle-class people to a trivial subsidy, which is nonsensical, because they pay their school lunch bill on April...
EVEN MY BODY would have daily quarrels with Procrastination. At nine in the morning every morning-Procrastination would convince me that breakfast wasn't so very important. In relation, my stomach would attack us throughout the eleven o'clock lecture with sizzling pre-lunch hunger pains. Although I clearly remembered Procrastination's shortcomings, Organization was looking less attractive. She had me saving everything, even all those stupid Coop Charge receipts. "Why do we want a slip of paper with 'stationary' written on it twelve times?" She didn't answer until we started returning books. Procrastination and I had never saved...
...Modern Peru has much to learn from the early natives, says Valcarcel. "The Incas had a deep sense of their dependence on their Mama-Pacha, Mother Earth. They managed it so well all over the empire that Conqueror Hernando de Soto was moved to say: 'There was never hunger known in their realm.' " -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Gavin Scott/Patallacta