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How Hungry is America?
June 5, 2009  
A photograph of Joel Berg

Joel Berg, Executive Director, NYC Coalition Against Hunger and author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? He discusses how the new budget passed by Congress and President Obama’s policy proposals could help Maine’s hungry families move from soup kitchens to self-sufficiency. He also outlines a plan to achieve the President’s pledge to end U.S. child hunger by 2015.

   

 (57:27)

 

This talk was recorded in Portland at an event sponsored by the Muskie School of Public Service at USM.

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