Notes From My Journal
America's Hidden Hunger Crisis Demands Urgent Attention
The US is experiencing a hunger crisis, the NYT tells us, and the Biden administration is addressing this by “accelerating a vast campaign of hunger relief that will temporarily increase assistance by tens of billions of dollars and set the stage for what officials envision as lasting expansions of aid.”
“A hunger crisis?” I thought.
Where are the skeletal frames and bloated children’s bellies? That type of problem – for most of my life – has been located in Africa and Asia and is almost always caused by war and displacement.
But here in the USA? Could it be possible?