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来源类型 | REPORT |
规范类型 | 报告 |
How President Obama Can Reverse America’s Worsening Hunger Metrics | |
Joel Berg | |
发表日期 | 2013-02-04 |
出版年 | 2013 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Ending U.S. childhood hunger and U.S. hunger in general is not only the right thing to do—it’s the smart thing to do to advance our national interest. |
摘要 | Domestic hunger, poverty, food insecurity—and, as a result, the use of supplemental nutrition assistance—all soared under the presidency of George W. Bush. In October 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama pledged to end childhood hunger in the United States by 2015 as a down payment on ending all domestic hunger. At the time he made that pledge, however, he was unaware of the full extent of the economic downturn that he would inherit upon taking office, as well as the extent to which conservatives in Congress would—despite their embrace of corporate welfare—consistently and harshly oppose government efforts to fight hunger. During the first three years of the Obama administration, the number of children in food-insecure households remained at the very high level of nearly 17 million. Although the Obama administration’s actions to boost benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and improve access to other nutrition programs greatly mitigated the extent to which families struggled against hunger, we are no closer to meeting his goal to end childhood hunger by 2015 than we were four years ago—and we are far further away than we were in 2001, when 4 million fewer children lived in food-insecure homes. Moreover, food insecurity and hunger are on the flip side of the same malnutrition coin as obesity because healthier food is more expensive and less available in low-income neighborhoods than unhealthy foods. These joint problems harm the U.S. economy, hinder educational advancement, and increase health care spending. In order to end childhood hunger in the United States, the president and Congress must work together to ensure a full-employment economy with sufficient living-wage jobs available in all low-income rural, suburban, and urban areas nationwide, as well as ensure that federal nutrition benefits are able to sustain families for a full month and that more working families are able to access them. The president and his administration can take the following executive actions now to significantly reduce child hunger, as well as U.S. hunger in general:
In his second Inaugural Address, President Obama placed a powerful marker on the need to reduce U.S. poverty, saying:
Not only does childhood hunger inflict great hardship on the most vulnerable, but it also makes it nearly impossible for little boys and girls to grow up to achieve the American Dream. Ending childhood hunger should therefore be the defining mission of the president’s second term. Joel Berg is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. |
主题 | Poverty |
URL | https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/reports/2013/02/04/51178/how-president-obama-can-reverse-americas-worsening-hunger-metrics/ |
来源智库 | Center for American Progress (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/435419 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joel Berg. How President Obama Can Reverse America’s Worsening Hunger Metrics. 2013. |
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