Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups

by Andrew Fisher

Book Overview

How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.

Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262535165
• ISBN13: 9780262535168
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"