INTRODUCTION
bers of people who go hungry
Figure i.2 Number and Percent of Food Insecure Individuals in the
every year remain shockingly
United States, by Race and Ethnicity
high. The fact is that we tolerate levels of hunger in the
Number
Percent
United States that would be
unthinkable in other devel12.0%
White
23,829,000
oped countries. The causes of
hunger in this country are not
unique, so solutions that have
worked elsewhere could also
Hispanic 24.9%
12,545,000
work here.
In recent decades, we’ve
somehow come to accept that
the nation’s prosperity does
Black
9,591,000
25.5%
not need to be shared. The
top earners make more than
the top earners in any other
developed country, while the
Other
3,001,000
13.7%
lowest-paid workers are worse
off than their counterparts in
all but a few of these counSource: Alisha Coleman-Jensen, Mark Nord, and Anita Singh (September 2013), Household Food
tries.7 Being a “developed”
Security in the United States in 2012, Statistical Supplement, U.S Department of Agriculture
country surely means more
than having an advanced economy. Moral and social development must be priorities
as well.
Setting a Goal
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