Over 47 million Americans are already food insecure, and that number is expected to increase thanks to Trump’s budget.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/70449

During the first term of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the Reagan administration denied that hunger and malnutrition were significant issues in the U.S. In response, the Food Research & Action Center and other anti-hunger advocacy groups began developing large-scale hunger surveys to chart the problem. The advocacy groups started collecting large-scale hunger data first in Connecticut and…

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