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The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
What began as local, church-based charity has become a federally funded, corporatized system that profits from managing poverty. This investigative report exposes how America’s modern hunger industry grew—and why it may be failing the very people it claims to serve.
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Tagged Beth Saks, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Homeland Security, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, IRS, Kate Maehr, National Academies Panel, National Academy of Medicine, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President Reagan, Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, TEFAP, The Emergency Food Assistance Program, The Hunger Prevention Act of 1988, U.S. Census Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture, USDA
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