What It Would Take to End Hunger in the U.S.

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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President Biden says he aims to end hunger and food insecurity in the United States by 2030. Next week the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health will consider the policy changes needed to reach that goal. The last conference on hunger and health was in 1969 during the Nixon administration, and it led to many of the nation’s major health policies like child nutrition assistance and food stamps. We’ll talk about what hunger and food insecurity looks like in the U.S. now, and what it would take to ensure no Americans go hungry. Guests: Ahori Pathak, director of policy, Poverty to Prosperity Program at Center for American Progress Kassandra Martinchek, research associate, Urban Institute Dariush Mozaffarian, cardiologist and professor of nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University; co-chair of the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition and health - an independent task force working to help inform the White House Conference Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.2	In 2021, 51, 53 million Americans turned to food banks and other community
1:30.1	programs for helping put food on the table.
1:34.1	In 1969, Richard Nixon addressed Congress saying that hunger and malnutrition should persist
1:39.0	in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable. He went on to detail an actual plan for increased food
1:45.2	assistance to hungry Americans, and those programs still work to keep even more people from
1:49.7	going without meals. President Biden has convened a new conference next week on hunger,
1:54.7	the goal, end hunger by 2030. As Nixon concluded, something very like the honor of American
2:00.8	democracy is at issue.
2:02.6	We'll talk about the new effort, what we know works, and why people remain food insecure after this news.
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