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Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9780060195632
- Book Title
- Growing Up Empty : the Hunger Epidemic in America
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Medical, Social Science
- Topic
- Nutrition, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Already lauded as "a deft blend of tough investigative reporting and deep compassion . . . an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims" by the most respected senators, members of Congress, journalists and hunger advocates in the country, Growing Up Empty is a study of a hidden epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels. A call to action that will reenergize the national debate on the federal government's priorities, Growing Up Empty is advocacy journalism at its best. In 1981, President Reagan incongruously announced to the world that there were no hungry souls in the richest nation in the world, that poverty had been virtually wiped out. But Schwartz-Nobel had found a different story in America's communities, and she laid bare the horrifying truth about hunger in the United States in her landmark work on hunger, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty. That book caused Americans to reexamine their priorities. Twenty years later, Schwartz-Nobel returned to see how things had improved -- and discovered that it was all the same. As she tracked this hidden political and emotional battle, she was shocked to find that hunger is deeper and wider than she could have imagined, that it has reached epic proportions. It is running rampant through urban, rural and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians, Jews and nonbelievers alike. And it is getting worse. The stories of the people she encountered are the core of Growing Up Empty. With a combination of skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's sympathetic and humanistic eye for detail, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel portrays an unforgettable reality of human suffering that need not exist. Among the people we come to know in these pages are the new breed of homeless born of the "Welfare to Work" program -- working poor who have jobs but do not make enough to support their families-, immigrants who work under horrifying conditions for little money and fewer benefits; a formerly middle-class dentist's wife abandoned by her husband, reduced to stealing in order to feed her hungry children; soldiers who fight on our front lines, while their hungry young wives and children stand on bread lines and are denied benefits and baby formula at military health clinics. In the "affecting and powerful" Growing Up Empty, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel has found the shrouded and silent victims of our public policies and brings us into their homes and hearts.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060195630
ISBN-13
9780060195632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2272747
Product Key Features
Book Title
Growing Up Empty : the Hunger Epidemic in America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Nutrition, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Medical, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hc110.P6s327 2002
Reviews
A penetrating journalistic study that puts a human face on [hunger]. ... A wake-up call to policy makers.
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-020737
Dewey Decimal
363.8/2/0973
Dewey Edition
21
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