CNN: Rising Food Costs Drive up Hunger

“With persistent high unemployment, oil fueling more than 95% of America’s transportation system, and transportation costs running 24% of income in suburbia and in exurbia, 35% America’s middle class is extraordinarily exposed,” New America Foundation’s Smart Strategy Initiative Director Patrick Doherty.

“It is like a malignant social ill that leaves the country weaker, and more susceptible to other problems like poorer educational performance and health problems”- Jim Weill, President of the Food Research and Action Center.”
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