The
Richest Country’s Empty Plates. 50 Million
Hungry Americans
By Larry Romanoff
December 19, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -In July of 2013, Rose
Aguilar wrote a wonderful article for al-Jazeera
(1), in which she discussed the dire hunger
crisis that envelops the US today. In her
article, she brought back a memory of
something I had long forgotten, an event
that so outraged the American public that
the government was temporarily forced to
respond with more humane policies. That
event was a 1968 CBS special hour-long
documentary called Hunger in America, in
which viewers literally watched a
hospitalized child die of starvation. Nixon
responded because the public outrage left
him no choice, but Reagan quickly dismantled
those improvements.
When Reagan came to power in 1980, there
were 200 food banks in the US; today there are more than
40,000, all overwhelmed with demand and forced to ration
their dispersals. Before 1980, one out of every 50
Americans was dependent on food stamps. Today, it is one
out of four. Before Reagan, there were 10 million hungry
Americans; today there are more than 50 million and
increasing.
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