Hunger Epidemic in America

The book is the story of hungry Americans told in their own words. Simultaneously, it is also story of federal corruption and abuse. The Government of the United States turns countless numbers of eligible people away from the existing food programmes. It allows millions of infants to be malnourished and it seems to be obvious to citizens who are starving and dying. President Ronald Reagan\'s Chief Advisor domestic affairs announced in December 1980 that poverty had been virtually wiped out in the United States and the systems of government aid have been a brilliant success. This book lays bare the horrifying truth. For the first time since Robert Kennedy travelled the muddy back roads of Mississippi and the war on poverty rose and fell, starvation in America, is documented. The book has retraced Kennedy\'s steps and found that Marasmus and Kwashiorkor, the most extreme diseases of protein and caloric deficiency, still exist in the United States today. The author spent seven years travelling across the country and speaking to the hungry in rural shacks, urban ghettos on Indian reservation and in previously middle class homes.