A Visit to Harlem Highlights “Unacceptable” Issue of Hunger in America
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger, World Hunger Year, the Food Bank for New York City, and City Council member Bill de Blasio joined Half in Ten at the Yorkville Common Pantry in Harlem on July 9. The Yorkville Common Pantry is one of the 1,200 food pantries and soup kitchens in the City that serve 1.3 million New Yorkers each year. Joel Berg, the Executive Director of the NYCCAH, told the Epoch Times, “Poverty in the U.S. and New York are unacceptable…In a society with as much wealth as modern America, hunger should be doubly unacceptable. [Senator Edwards’] visit not only highlights the growing domestic hunger problem, but enables us to being a national discussion of the basic steps necessary to make sure that all Americans have access to the food they need to lead productive and healthy lives.” Hunger in the United States is an ongoing and extensive problem; 1 in 5 children in New York City are food-insecure. As food prices have skyrocketed and the economy has worsened over the past year, hunger has increased in New York and throughout the country, and there was a 9% increase in meals served at food pantries and soup kitchens like the Yorkville Common Pantry in 2008.
“Sen. John Edwards Makes Appearance at Harlem Food Pantry” (The Epoch Times)
John Edwards on the Brian Lehrer Show
