With no government safety net, and little or no aid getting in, people started going hungry.
Our shortcomings are made abundantly clear in "Millions Still Going Hungry in the U.S., Report Finds" (news article, Sept. 10).
In my book, "Going Hungry," one writer, Latria Graham, traced her bulimia in part to her parents' fractious marriage.
Yet the sharp rise in the number of people going hungry in our country seems to be an indicator that something has gone horribly wrong.
After being on the brink of starvation in North Korea, he found himself going hungry in the United States.
Children in Britain are going hungry – where are their defenders?
Since last winter, Bonner said, her staff had been giving food vouchers to people in danger of going hungry.
The Cruzes were relieved that they no longer had to worry about losing their apartment in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, or going hungry.
A report by a coalition of churches released this spring found that 100,000 children in Britain were going hungry after their parents were sanctioned.
And, if anyone was in danger of going hungry, the crew was quick to follow up the evening's musical entertainment with popcorn and ice-cream sundaes.
