Facts
On
World Hunger
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About 24,000
people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes.
This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty
years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under
the age of five. The Hunger Project, United Nations
Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five.
This is down from 28% fifty years ago. CARE |
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Child
poverty is more widespread in the United
States than in any other industrialized country;
at the same time, the U.S. government
does less than any industrialized country
to pull its children out of poverty (What Governments
Can Do: Hunger 1997, Bread for
the World Institute). |
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