Facts
On
World Hunger |
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Thirty-one
million people - including 12 million
children -- live in households
that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This
represents one in ten households in the United States (10.1
percent).(USDA)
Requests for emergency food assistance have risen by 18% in American cities -
with more than half of the requests coming from families with children. U.S.
Conference of Mayors, Dec. 1999 |
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America's
Second Harvest, the nation's largest
network of food banks,
reports that 23.3 million people turned to the agencies they
serve in 2001, an increase of over 2 million since 1997. Forty
percent were from working families.
Catholic Charities USA reports that in 1999 the number
of people receiving
emergency food assistance surged 32 percent. |
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