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Hunger 101 Highlights Local Issue

Abstract:
It is a common misconception that hunger is more of a global than a local issue, but roughly 100,000 people in Connecticut suffer from food insecurity. Of these 100,000 people, 40,000 are children.

Tuesday night ConnPIRG (Public Interest Research Group) held a Hunger 101 workshop in the Student Union to raise hunger awareness....

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Larry Wood

posted 3/28/07 @ 3:43 PM EST

Hunger in the United States is a horrible thing. We have not addrerssed this as a people and it needs a lot of attention. Hunger is probably our National Disgrace. We must as a people feed our people first.There is too much political posturing happening with the feed all other Nations hungry ones, before wanting to admit that there is as much Starvetion here as elsewhere.If we as a people feed, house, clothe and educate our young ones, in a few generations, the crime rate would fall, because of the educated well nutured generation that this would spawn.We could then stop building prisons, as there would be less need for them.
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