Toward An End To Hunger In America

Author : Peter K. Eisinger
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815791240

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Toward an End to Hunger in America by Peter K. Eisinger Pdf

Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition. We spend a smaller percentage of our income on food than any other nation. We feed much of the world with our surpluses. Consumers, retailers, and restaurants throw away one-quarter of our food stock every year. And yet data collected by the federal government show that almost 12 percent of American households either suffer from hunger or worry about going hungry. Why are so many Americans afflicted with "food insecurity" during such prosperous times? According to this book, it's not simply an artifact of poverty: even most of the poorest homes have access to adequate food. Nor is it indifference to their plight or a lack of ways to help: Americans strongly support government food assistance, and there are a host of public and private programs devoted to feeding the hungry. Peter Eisinger seeks to unravel the puzzle of America's hunger and asserts that it is a problem that can be solved. He believes that the perception of hunger and responses to it emerge from a complex, intellectual, political, and social context. He begins by looking for a meaningful definition of hunger, then examines the structure and funding of government food assistance programs, the roles of Congress and community interest groups, and the contributions of volunteer organizations. He concludes by offering ideas to reduce the nation's perplexing hunger problem, based on creating stronger partnerships between public and private food programs.

Author : Peter K. Eisinger
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815791249

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Toward an End to Hunger in America by Peter K. Eisinger Pdf

Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition. We spend a smaller percentage of our income on food than any other nation. We feed much of the world with our surpluses. Consumers, retailers, and restaurants throw away one-quarter of our food stock every year. And yet data collected by the federal government show that almost 12 percent of American households either suffer from hunger or worry about going hungry. Why are so many Americans afflicted with "food insecurity" during such prosperous times? According to this book, it's not simply an artifact of poverty: even most of the poorest homes have access to adequate food. Nor is it indifference to their plight or a lack of ways to help: Americans strongly support government food assistance, and there are a host of public and private programs devoted to feeding the hungry. Peter Eisinger seeks to unravel the puzzle of America's hunger and asserts that it is a problem that can be solved. He believes that the perception of hunger and responses to it emerge from a complex, intellectual, political, and social context. He begins by looking for a meaningful definition of hunger, then examines the structure and funding of government food assistance programs, the roles of Congress and community interest groups, and the contributions of volunteer organizations. He concludes by offering ideas to reduce the nation's perplexing hunger problem, based on creating stronger partnerships between public and private food programs.

Author : Joel Blau,Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195109686

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The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy by Joel Blau,Mimi Abramovitz Pdf

Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Introducing Social Welfare Policy 1. Introduction: Social Problems, Social Policy, and the Triggers of Social Change2. Definitions and Functions of Social Welfare Policy, Mimi AbramovitzPart II: The Policy Model 3. The Economy and Social Welfare4. The Politics of Social Welfare5. Ideological Perspectives and Conflicts, Mimi Abramovitz6. Social Movements and Social Changes, Mimi Abramovitz7. Social Welfare History in the United StatesPart III: Policy Analyses: Applying the Policy Model 8. Income Support: Programs and Policies9. Jobs and Job Training: Programs.

Author : CQ Researcher,
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483343570

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Issues for Debate in Social Policy by CQ Researcher, Pdf

Is more government aid needed? Who will pay for care of aging baby boomers? Will all Americans finally get health insurance? These are just some of the topics covered in Issues for Debate in Social Policy. Engaging and reader-friendly articles encourage students to think critically about some of the most pressing social policy issues of our time. Classroom discussions will sparkle as a result! About CQ Researcher Readers In the tradition of nonpartisanship and current analysis that is the hallmark of CQ Press, readers investigate important and controversial policy issues. Offer your students the balanced reporting, complete overviews, and engaging writing that has consistently provided for more than 80 years. Each article gives substantial background andanalysis of a particular issue as well as useful pedagogical features to inspire critical thinking andto help students grasp and review key material: A Pro/Con box that examines two competing sides of a single question A detailed chronology of key dates and events An annotated bibliography and Web resources Outlook sections that address possible regulation and initiatives from Capitol Hill and the White House over the next 5 to 10 years Photos, charts, graphs, and maps

Author : Katie S. Martin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642831535

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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries by Katie S. Martin Pdf

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed. The key is to focus on the root causes of hunger. When we shift our attention to strategies that build empathy, equity, and political will, we can implement real solutions. Martin shares those solutions in a warm, engaging style, with simple steps that anyone working or volunteering at a food bank or pantry can take today. Some are short-term strategies to create a more dignified experience for food pantry clients: providing client choice, where individuals select their own food, or redesigning a waiting room with better seating and a designated greeter. Some are longer-term: increasing the supply of healthy food, offering job training programs, or connecting clients to other social services. And some are big picture: joining the fight for living wages and a stronger social safety net. These strategies are illustrated through inspiring success stories and backed up by scientific research. Throughout, readers will find a wealth of proven ideas to make their charitable food organizations more empathetic and more effective. As Martin writes, it takes more than food to end hunger. Picking up this insightful, lively book is a great first step.

Author : Robert Coles
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820353241

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Still Hungry in America by Robert Coles Pdf

Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South showcased in Still Hungry in America still resonates today. The work was created to complement a July 1967 U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty hearings on hunger in America. At those hearings, witnesses documented examples of deprivation afflicting hundreds of thousands of American families. The most powerful testimonies came from the authors of this profoundly disturbing and important book. Al Clayton’s sensitive camerawork enabled the subcommittee members to see the agonizing results of insufficient food and improper diet, rendered graphically in stunted, weakened and fractured bones, dry, shrunken, and ulcerated skin, wasting muscles, and bloated legs and abdomens. Physician and child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who had worked with these populations for many years, described with fierce clarity the medical and psychological effects of hunger. Coles’s powerful narrative, reinforced by heartbreaking interviews with impoverished people and accompanied by 101 photographs taken by Clayton in Appalachia, rural Mississippi, and Atlanta, Georgia, convey the plight of the millions of hungry citizens in the most affluent nation on earth. A new foreword by historian Thomas J. Ward Jr. analyzes food insecurity among today’s rural and urban poor and frames the current crisis in the American diet not as a scarcity of food but as an overabundance of empty calories leading to obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3603569

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Nutrition
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119640790

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Nutrition and Human Needs--1970 by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494311

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251094358

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Towards Zero Hunger 1945–2030 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This book showcases a unique collection of images documenting how FAO has played a leading role in combating hunger worldwide since 1945. It highlights the Organization’s ongoing efforts to help its Members achieve “zero hunger” in a changing world that is facing new and pressing challenges from migration and climate change. The foreword by the FAO Director-General and the introduction to zero hunger by the Director of the FAO Office for Corporate Communication provide the context for FAO’s work and a real-life example of how “zero hunger” can change people’s lives for the better. In addition, there are profiles of the five recently appointed FAO Special Goodwill Ambassadors for Zero Hunger. Next, the photos and their captions, with some accompanying text, illustrate FAO’s work and significant moments in its history. Thus, the reader can see the single frames in the context of the whole picture.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D00303919Y

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Hunger in America by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger Pdf

Author : Mehmet Odekon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1761 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412918077

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Encyclopedia of World Poverty by Mehmet Odekon Pdf

Provides more than eight hundred alphabetical entries that cover issues relating to poverty around the world.

Author : Arthur Simon
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467457125

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Silence Can Kill by Arthur Simon Pdf

Have faith. End hunger. Ending hunger is a moral imperative that does not stand alone. Hunger thrives on the racial, social, and economic inequalities that are eating away at the soul of our nation and pulling us apart. But ending hunger could now become the cause that brings us together across partisan lines to make our economy include everyone and work for everybody. The goal of ending hunger nationwide is not only noble but easily within reach. Taking up this goal could give us a corrective lens, a lens of hope for seeing ourselves and our country in a new way. It could also give us better vision for helping the world overcome extreme hunger and poverty. Our failure to speak and write to members of Congress about hunger consigns millions of people here and abroad to diminished lives and premature death, so it is a silence that kills. We can break that silence by urging the nation’s leaders to help end hunger and humanize our economy. This book addresses all people of goodwill, including agnostics and atheists, but with a special word of concern for religious people—Christians in particular—who help through charity, but neglect to use the power of their citizenship against hunger.

Author : Jeremy K. Everett
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493418305

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I Was Hungry by Jeremy K. Everett Pdf

Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food . . ." (Matthew 25:35). However, the problems of hunger and poverty are too large and too complex for any one of us to resolve individually. I Was Hungry offers not only an assessment of the current crisis but also a strategy for addressing it. Jeremy Everett, a noted advocate for the hungry and poor, calls Christians to work intentionally across ideological divides to build trust with one another and impoverished communities and effectively end America's hunger crisis. Everett, appointed by US Congress to the National Commission on Hunger, founded and directs the Texas Hunger Initiative, a successful ministry that is helping to eradicate hunger in Texas and around the globe. Everett details the organization's history and tells stories of its work with communities from West Texas to Washington, DC, helping Christians of all political persuasions understand how they can work together to truly make a difference.

Author : David Beckmann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611640687

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Exodus from Hunger by David Beckmann Pdf

It is within America's technical and financial power to help end world hunger in our lifetime, if we set our hearts and minds to the task. Contrary to what many people believe, the world has made measurable advancements against hunger and poverty over the last several decades. But too often the binding constraint on further progress is a simple lack of political will. As a result, one of the most powerful ways to affect change is often the most neglected- political activism. In this powerful and hopeful book, David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and a leading anti-hunger activist, looks at the causes of hunger, presents case studies of countries that have made great strides against it, and puts a human face on the problem by sharing stories of people who are, quite simply, hungry every day. The problems can seem overwhelming but Beckmann lays out a clear and workable plan for effectively using political channels to make great progress. He not only challenges us to get involved, he shows us how. It is no less than our call to do so.