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Entitled "Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America," the report charged that the current economic recovery is "having little impact on the nation's 20 million hungry citizens," a virtually unprecedented economic scenario...
Despite an improvement in the overall economy, hunger has been growing in the U.S. in the last five years, according to the study. The economic expansion has affected only those already well off, often leaving minorities and single women to fend for themselves, said the study, which was written by members of the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America (PTFHA...
Poverty and hunger no longer affect only the unemployed but also attack many full-time minimum wage earners, who make on average $6968 per year--$2000 under the poverty level, according to the report which is the fourth in a series of PTFHA reports...
...report describes specific cases of hunger in America, such as a malnourished baby surviving on rice and beans in Houston and a Minnesota man who was "unable to provide a meal at his daughter's wedding...
...study suggested a 23-point plan to solve the nation's hunger problem, including expanding relief groups and raising the minimum wage to meet inflated consumer prices. The report also recommended correlating the minimum wage to cost-of-living increases in the future, as well as extending unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed...