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The New Face of Hunger

Year: 2014

 "Millions of working Americans don't know where their next meal is coming from. We sent three photographers to explore hunger in three very different parts of the United States, each giving different faces to the same statistic: One-sixth of Americans don't have enough food to eat. … One in eight Iowans often goes hungry, with children the most vulnerable … Despite a strong economy, Houston is ringed by neighborhoods where many working families can't afford groceries. Hunger has grown faster in America's suburbs than in its cities over the past decade, creating a class of 'SUV poor.' … Urban neighborhoods with pervasive unemployment and poverty are home to the hungriest. The South Bronx has the highest rate of food insecurity in the country, 37 percent, compared with 16.6 for New York City as a whole."