Hunger and homelessness are among the top issue areas that motivate kids to serve. Kids understand what it means to feel safe and to have food in their bellies. What's more, they find it unacceptable, and they are willing and able to do something about it.
I should have been prepared for the notion that hunger was prevalent here in the United States, but I wasn't. I was shocked to hear that a First World country had such an ignominious reality prevalent across all 50 states.
Millions of Americans are currently weathering the effects of a slow economic recovery. Many Chinese, meanwhile, find themselves struggling less to ke...
No one goes hungry in America.
1 Hunger is supposed to happen in other places - in distant countries where droughts or storms or famine compel us to ...
America does not lack food nor do we lack public food and nutrition programs. Kids who are hungry in America are hungry because they lack access to such programs. That is a solvable problem.