Growing Up Empty: How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Children
Growing Up Empty is a study of the hidden hunger epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels and "an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims" (William Raspberry, Washington Post).\ Twenty years after Ronald Reagan declared that hunger was no longer an American problem, Schwartz-Nobel shows that hunger has reached epic proportions, running rampant through urban, rural, and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites,...
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Growing Up Empty is a study of the hidden hunger epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels and "an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims" (William Raspberry, Washington Post).Twenty years after Ronald Reagan declared that hunger was no longer an American problem, Schwartz-Nobel shows that hunger has reached epic proportions, running rampant through urban, rural, and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians and Jews, and nonbelievers alike.Among the people we come to know are the new homeless. Born of the "Welfare to Work" program, these working poor have jobs but do not make enough to support their families, such as the formerly middle-class housewife reduced to stealing in order to feed her children, or the soldier fighting on our front lines while his young wife stands in bread lines and is denied benefits and baby formula at a military health clinic. With skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's humanitarian eye for detail, Schwartz-Nobel portrays a haunting reality of human suffering that need not exist. A call to action, Growing Up Empty is advocacy journalism at its best. Newark Star Ledger “Inspiring, heartbreaking and harrowing.”
Author's NotexiiiPreface1Introduction21Chapter 1Hunger and the Middle Class: Divorce and the Downward Spiral35Chapter 2Hunger and the Always Poor: Generation after Generation of Urban and Rural Poverty55Chapter 3Hunger and the Military: From Front Lines to Food Lines83Chapter 4Hunger and the Working Poor: Long Hours, Starvation Wages119Chapter 5Hunger and the Homeless: America's Wandering Families149Chapter 6Hunger, the Immigrants and the Refugees: Dreams of the Dispossessed187Chapter 7A Story without an End: The Ghosts of Yesterday217The Last Word233Appendixes239A.The Medford DeclarationB.OrganizationsNotes249
\ Kenneth Kusmer"A penetrating journalistic study that puts a human face on [hunger]. ... A wake-up call to policy makers."\ \ \ \ \ Newark Star Ledger"Inspiring, heartbreaking and harrowing."\ \
