According to the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), thirty one million Americans now live in hunger or on the edge of hunger (State Government Responses to the Food Assistance Gap 2000, Third Annual Report and 50 State Survey, December 2000)
The report goes on to say that hunger can be hard to spot and that it's not only a problem solely facing the homeless. "It's easy to harden a heart against drunks and drug users, the mentally ill and the lazy asking for handouts. But many of the people frequenting the food pantries have fallen on hard times.
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