Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study, "Children Are Hungry in Massachusetts," was conducted in conjunction with the Massachusetts Anti-Hunger Coalition and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
These statistics, compiled by Project Bread, an anti-hunger organization, are the target of a Cambridge food policy proposal that would guarantee all citizens the right to food. If passed, the policy would call on the city to coordinate its welfare services and raise awareness of the problem of hunger within Cambridge, City Councillors said...
...Food and shelter are basic needs, but we've never really dealt with them... We have a housing policy but no food policy," Cyr said. "Hunger is a problem we don't take seriously...
According to Project Bread's statewide study on childhood hunger, one out of four children may be hungry, 80,000 children under 12 are going hungry and 115,000 children under 12 are at risk of being hungry...
...there is any measure of how bad the economy is, it's that there are children going to school hungry and elderly waiting in the cold at food pantries," Cyr said. "We need to recognize hunger as a significant social problem that needs to be addressed...