All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?
“His excellent, if statistic-heavy, analysis of 50 years of domestic food policies, All You Can Eat, slams the demonization of the poor as malingerers and lambastes the racism and sexism that underscore this media-reinforced stereotype.”—L Magazine\ “The thought-provoking investigation delves into the political and economic impact of food insecurity…Fortunately, Berg is adept at balancing facts with reflection, and humor…book is more of a cross between Super Size Me and Nickel and Dimed in...
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A political insider's exposé on why over 35 million Americans still go hungry in America. Publishers Weekly Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, spotlights domestic poverty and hunger in this book that has sharp words for politicians, charities and religious denominations. The author reveals how consistently the federal government has ignored the fact that 35.5 million Americans, including 12.6 million children, don't have enough to eat. Although local governments cared for hungry and poverty-stricken citizens in the pre-Depression years, contemporary politicos in Washington have alternately denied that hunger is a problem, then admitted its existence, then tried to eradicate it with programs that rarely last. Whether he is reasoning why the word hunger is better and more to-the-point than the government's term food insecure, pillorying hunger surveys that don't count the homeless or demonstrating how even well-meaning social services contribute to the problem, Berg is a passionate and articulate advocate. This book provides a range of practical solutions, but gets bogged down by an overwhelming amount of hard data and statistics, which may deter some readers from wanting to take a good-sized bite of it. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Introduction Hunger Amidst Plenty: A Problem as American as Apple Pie 13Sect. I The ProblemCh. 1 Who is Hungry in America?: The Politics of Measuring Hunger 25Ch. 2 How Hunger Costs All of Us 45Ch. 3 Why Brother (and Sister) Still Can't Spare a Dime: A Short History of Domestic Hunger 53Ch. 4 The Tattered (But Still Existing) Federal Hunger Safety Net 83Ch. 5 Let Them Eat Ramen Noodles: One Week Living on $28.30 of Food 99Ch. 6 Are Americans Hungry - Or Fat? 111Ch. 7 Dickens Revisited: Life in the New Gilded Age 127Ch. 8 Let Them Eat Sound Bites: The Polarized Politics of Welfare Reform 157Ch. 9 The Poverty Trap: Why It Is So Hard to Escape Poverty in America 175Ch. 10 The Charity Myth 191Ch. 11 How Media Ignores Hunger (Except During Holidays and Hurricanes) 217Sect. II The SolutionCh. 12 Here It Is: The Plan to End Domestic Hunger 237Ch. 13 Bolstering Community Food Production and Marketing 259Ch. 14 A New War on Poverty 275Ch. 15 How All of Us (Including YOU) Can End Hunger in America 283Appendix A Hunger and Poverty-Fighting Resources 295Appendix B Revised Rules for Radical Centrists: Tips for Activists on How to Organize and Craft Messages for Successful Advocacy Campaigns 303Acknowledgments 315Notes 319Index 341
\ Publishers WeeklyBerg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, spotlights domestic poverty and hunger in this book that has sharp words for politicians, charities and religious denominations. The author reveals how consistently the federal government has ignored the fact that 35.5 million Americans, including 12.6 million children, don't have enough to eat. Although local governments cared for hungry and poverty-stricken citizens in the pre-Depression years, contemporary politicos in Washington have alternately denied that hunger is a problem, then admitted its existence, then tried to eradicate it with programs that rarely last. Whether he is reasoning why the word hunger is better and more to-the-point than the government's term food insecure, pillorying hunger surveys that don't count the homeless or demonstrating how even well-meaning social services contribute to the problem, Berg is a passionate and articulate advocate. This book provides a range of practical solutions, but gets bogged down by an overwhelming amount of hard data and statistics, which may deter some readers from wanting to take a good-sized bite of it. (Nov.)\ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\ \
