The emerging hunger problem is
“startling” and “extreme,” said Jeremy Everett, director of Baylor
University’s Texas Hunger Initiative, which uses Feeding America’s data
to pinpoint areas facing food challenges statewide.
“The
recession has subsided for most Americans but it still hasn’t subsided
for low-income Americans. Their situation just has not improved,” he
said, adding that it was “probably worse now” because a temporary
funding boost in 2009 to the key government food aid program known as
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) was allowed to lapse by Congress last year.
“It
seems like we are stacking the deck against” low-income people, said
Everett, who was recently named to the congressional National Commission
on Hunger. “We’re missing rungs at the bottom of the (economic) ladder
to be able to help people to get to the top.”
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