Abstract

Let Them Eat Cake

Offers a look at the potential loss of federal aid to food banks, soup kitchens, and other emergency food services for the poor in the U.S. Impact of rising food prices on hunger among the poor; Incidence of poverty and hunger in the U.S.; Portrait of America's Second Harvest, the largest emergency food service program in the U.S., which provides 2 billion pounds of food to the poor each year; Potential for government aid to emergency food programs to be decreased by the administration of President George W. Bush; Claim that a new federal budget could cut funds to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, the food stamps program, and other initiatives; Criticism for federal budget changes that could cut funds to emergency food programs.