Food Chain Radio Show #1073

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist

Urban Teenagers In Hunger

This Poll is closed!!

Can hunger in America be eradicated?

No

Yes

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75%

25%

Guest: Elaine Waxman, Senior Fellow Urban Institute

It was a perfect storm of bad food news about our young!

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Urban Teen Hunger: Can hungry teens be helped out of hunger?

First was a BBC video entitled, “The Lost Streets of Chicago.” Search and watch, but only if you want to learn about the hopelessness of being young, with a gun, on the urban streets of Chicago.

Second was a Chicago Tribune article entitled, “Why Food Stamp Fraud is ‘Fairly Rampant’ at Corner Stores in Some Chicago Neighborhoods.” Search and read, but only if you want to learn how 174 corner grocers were booted out of the federal food stamp program, leaving 174 neighborhoods without a grocer.

Third was a research report from the Urban Institute entitled, “Impossible Choices: Teens and Food Insecurity in America.” Search and read, if you want to learn how so many of America’s young live with limited options that leave them with impossible choices.

Okay! Let’s come to grips with the hunger of our young, and ask….

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Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #1073 September 17, 2016 Saturday 9AM Pacific