Table of Contents
Prologue 11
Introduction: Hunger Amidst Plenty: A Problem as American as Apple Pie 13
Section I The Problem
Chapter 1 Who is Hungry in America?: The Politics of Measuring Hunger 25
Chapter 2 How Hunger Costs All of Us 45
Chapter 3 Why Brother (and Sister) Still Can't Spare a Dime: A Short History of Domestic Hunger 53
Chapter 4 The Tattered (But Still Existing) Federal Hunger Safety Net 83
Chapter 5 Let Them Eat Ramen Noodles: One Week Living on $28.30 of Food 99
Chapter 6 Are Americans Hungry-Or Fat? 111
Chapter 7 Dickens Revisited: Life in the New Gilded Age 127
Chapter 8 Let Them Eat Sound Bites: The Polarized Politics of Welfare Reform 157
Chapter 9 The Poverty Trap: Why It Is So Hard to Escape Poverty in America 175
Chapter 10 The Charity Myth 191
Chapter 11 How Media Ignores Hunger (Except During Holidays and Hurricanes) 217
Section II The Solution
Chapter 12 Here It Is: The Plan to End Domestic Hunger 237
Chapter 13 Bolstering Community Food Production and Marketing 259
Chapter 14 A New War on Poverty 275
Chapter 15 How All of Us (Including YOU) Can End Hunger in America 283
Appendix A Hunger and Poverty-Fighting Resources 295
Appendix B Revised Rules for Radical Centrists: Tips for Activists on How to Organize and Craft Messages for Successful Advocacy Campaigns 303
Acknowledgments 315
Notes 319
Index 341
