Breadline USA
The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It
By Sasha Abramsky
(Polipoint Press, Hardcover, 9780981709116, 209pp.)
Publication Date: June 2009
Categories: Poverty
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Description
Trapped in a triangle of the housing market collapse, rising energy costs, and an increasingly dysfunctional healthcare system, America's working poor are now battling an even more formidable enemy: hunger. This time, the battle is taking place well outside of the media spotlight, which has focused on obesity, another food-related epidemic affecting the poor. Breadline USA tells the stories of Americans in all types of communities who struggle to put any type of food on the table come the end of the month when money runs out and the social safety net isnt there to catch them.
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From Sacramento News & Review, Sacramento, California
The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It: America's No. 1 health problem, the media relentlessly tell us, is obesity. Americans eat too much and we're the fattest people in the world. Except that, according to Sasha Abramsky, many Americans go hungry on a regular basis. And even many of those who arenâ??t hungry today suffer from what experts have taken to calling "food insecurity."
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