All You Can Eat How Hungry Is America?

Name: All You Can Eat How Hungry Is America?
Price: 4.47 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781583228548

ISBN-10: 1583228543

ISBN-13: 9781583228548

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joel Berg

List price: $22.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $14.01

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.47

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

With the biting wit of Super Size Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation-the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as American as apple pie, and shows what it is like when your income is not enough to cover rising housing and living costs and put food on the table. Berg takes to task politicians who remain inactive; the media, which ignores hunger except during holidays and hurricanes; and the food industry, which makes fattening, artery-clogging fast food more accessible to the nation's poor than healthy fare. Berg challenges the new…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 11/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 351
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Prologue


Introduction: Hunger Amidst Plenty: A Problem as American as Apple Pie



The Problem



Who is Hungry in America?: The Politics of Measuring Hunger



How Hunger Costs All of Us



Why Brother (and Sister) Still Can't Spare a Dime: A Short History of Domestic Hunger



The Tattered (But Still Existing) Federal Hunger Safety Net



Let Them Eat Ramen Noodles: One Week Living on $28.30 of Food



Are Americans Hungry-Or Fat?



Dickens Revisited: Life in the New Gilded Age



Let Them Eat Sound Bites: The Polarized Politics of Welfare Reform



The Poverty Trap: Why It Is So Hard to Escape Poverty in America



The Charity Myth



How Media Ignores Hunger (Except During Holidays and Hurricanes)



The Solution



Here It Is: The Plan to End Domestic Hunger



Bolstering Community Food Production and Marketing



A New War on Poverty



How All of Us (Including YOU) Can End Hunger in America



Hunger and Poverty-Fighting Resources



Revised Rules for Radical Centrists: Tips for Activists on How to Organize and Craft Messages for Successful Advocacy Campaigns


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index