Download or read book Seniors Going Hungry in America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Causes Consequences and Future of Senior Hunger in America written by James P. Ziliak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger is a serious threat facing millions of seniors in the United States. Despite this important public health threat, we know very little about the face of hunger among seniors, the causes of senior hunger, its consequences for the well-being of seniors, or what will happen in the next twenty years with respect to hunger among senior Americans. Although federally-funded programs including the Elderly Nutrition Program (ENP) and the Food Stamp Program are designed to address food security and nutritional needs among senior Americans, studies demonstrate high levels of need still exist among seniors. Thus, it is important to expand our understanding of hunger among seniors in order to help develop strategies to reduce it. With the generous financial support of a grant from the Meals On Wheels Association of America Foundation (MOWAAF) to the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) and Iowa State University, in this report we analyzed the causes, consequences, and future of senior hunger in America.
Download or read book SENIORS GOING HUNGRY IN AMERICA A CALL TO ACTION AND WARNING FOR THE FUTURE HRG S HRG 110 597 SPECIAL COM ON AGING U S SENATE 110TH CONGRESS 2ND SESSION written by and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seniors Going Hungry in America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living Hungry in America written by James Larry Brown and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shameful story of the over 20 million people who are regularly hungry in America and how they are forced to live.
Download or read book Seniors Going Hungry in America written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seniors going hungry in America : a call to action and warning for the future : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, March 5, 2008.
Download or read book Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A proportion of the population experiences food insecurity at some time in a given year because of food deprivation and lack of access to food due to economic resource constraints. Still, food insecurity in the United States is not of the same intensity as in some developing countries. Since 1995 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has annually published statistics on the extent of food insecurity and food insecurity with hunger in U.S. households. These estimates are based on a survey measure developed by the U.S. Food Security Measurement Project, an ongoing collaboration among federal agencies, academic researchers, and private organizations. USDA requested the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a panel of experts to undertake a two-year study in two phases to review at this 10-year mark the concepts and methodology for measuring food insecurity and hunger and the uses of the measure. In Phase 2 of the study the panel was to consider in more depth the issues raised in Phase 1 relating to the concepts and methods used to measure food security and make recommendations as appropriate. The Committee on National Statistics appointed a panel of 10 experts to examine the above issues. In order to provide timely guidance to USDA, the panel issued an interim Phase 1 report, Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger: Phase 1 Report. That report presented the panel's preliminary assessments of the food security concepts and definitions; the appropriateness of identifying hunger as a severe range of food insecurity in such a survey-based measurement method; questions for measuring these concepts; and the appropriateness of a household survey for regularly monitoring food security in the U.S. population. It provided interim guidance for the continued production of the food security estimates. This final report primarily focuses on the Phase 2 charge. The major findings and conclusions based on the panel's review and deliberations are summarized.
Download or read book Big Hunger written by Andrew Fisher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality. Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement. From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on corporate donations of food and money, anti-hunger organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a “hunger industrial complex” that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex. Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it.
Download or read book I Was Hungry written by Jeremy K. Everett and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food . . ." (Matthew 25:35). However, the problems of hunger and poverty are too large and too complex for any one of us to resolve individually. I Was Hungry offers not only an assessment of the current crisis but also a strategy for addressing it. Jeremy Everett, a noted advocate for the hungry and poor, calls Christians to work intentionally across ideological divides to build trust with one another and impoverished communities and effectively end America's hunger crisis. Everett, appointed by US Congress to the National Commission on Hunger, founded and directs the Texas Hunger Initiative, a successful ministry that is helping to eradicate hunger in Texas and around the globe. Everett details the organization's history and tells stories of its work with communities from West Texas to Washington, DC, helping Christians of all political persuasions understand how they can work together to truly make a difference.
Download or read book The State of Senior Hunger in American 2011 written by James P. Ziliak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report demonstrates that the threat of hunger among seniors in America continues to be a grave crisis facing the nation. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, as of 2011, nearly 1 in 6 seniors faced the threat of hunger, which is a significant increase from 1 in 8 in 2007. Given the compelling evidence that food insecurity is associated with a host of poor nutrition and health outcomes among seniors, this report card implies that the recent increase in senior hunger will likely lead to additional public health challenges for our country. This suggests that a potential avenue to stem the growth of health care expenditures on older Americans is to ameliorate the problem of food insecurity.
Download or read book Senior Hunger and the Older Americans Act written by Labor, and Pensions United States Senate, Subcommittee on Children and Families of the, Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem that we are discussing today, food security among seniors, is both a moral issue and it is a financial issue. From a moral perspective, it is clear to me that in this great Nation no one should go hungry, especially those who are old and frail and unable to take care of themselves. From a financial perspective, what is also clear-and we will hear testimony about this this morning from our panelists-is that investing in senior nutrition and in well-designed senior programs in general saves money. When we make sure that our seniors have adequate nutrition, at the end of the day those seniors are not going to be ending up in a emergency room, those seniors are not going to be ending up in a hospital when they should not be in a hospital, and in many cases they're not going to be ending up in a nursing home.
Download or read book All You Can Eat written by Joel Berg and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as American as apple pie, and shows what it is like when your income is not enough to cover rising housing and living costs and put food on the table. Berg takes to task politicians who remain inactive; the media, which ignores hunger except during holidays and hurricanes; and the food industry, which makes fattening, artery-clogging fast food more accessible to the nation's poor than healthy fare. He challenges the new president to confront the most unthinkable result of US poverty—hunger—and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good. A spirited call to action, All You Can Eat shows how practical solutions for hungry Americans will ultimately benefit America's economy and all of its citizens.
Download or read book Senior Hunger and the Older Americans Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Hunger and the Elderly written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act 1984 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The State of Senior Hunger in America 2014 written by James P. Ziliak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an overview of the extent and distribution of food insecurity in 2014 among seniors, along with trends over the past decade using national and state-level data from the December Supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS). Based on the full set of 18 questions in the Core Food Security Module (CFSM), the module used by the USDA to establish the official food insecurity rates of households in the United States, our emphasis here is on quantifying the senior population facing the threat of hunger (i.e. marginally food insecure). A supplement to this report also presents evidence on seniors at risk of hunger (i.e. food insecure) and on seniors facing hunger (i.e. very low food secure).
