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the children are still hungry
By
Britton Gildersleeve
In a country where we throw away edible food to the tune of 133 BILLION pounds annually, we still have 1 in 6 Americans hungry. And 1 in 4 of them are children. Little kids — like my adored (and well-fed) grandson. You read those figures correctly: “In the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion…
hungry children and politicians
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I have never understood letting children go hungry. Children are our most precious, irreplaceable resource. NOTHING trumps feeding children, and certainly not politics. The American government — in the guise of the Republican house — just voted to let children go hungry. You can frame it as you like, but in 2014 about 22 million…
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