Joel Berg

Executive Director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger

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Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger; former executive at the US Department of Agriculture (1993-2001); author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America

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Tomorrow's the day when millions of Americans get serious about feeding the hungry.

Helping the Hungry, beyond Thanksgiving Day

Tomorrow's the day when millions of Americans get serious about feeding the hungry.

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The Agriculture Department says that 49 million Americans did not get enough to eat last year.  Scholars at Cornell and Washington Universities report that half America's children…

Hunger in America

The Agriculture Department says that 49 million Americans did not get enough to eat last year.  Scholars at Cornell and Washington Universities report that half America's children…

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President Obama has repeated his campaign pledge to reduce "the trend of rising hunger," which recent reports call worse than ever.

Americans Are Too Fat and Too Hungry

President Obama has repeated his campaign pledge to reduce "the trend of rising hunger," which recent reports call worse than ever.

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