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Amy Beros discusses the persistent hunger crisis that plagues central and eastern North Carolina
Amy Beros, president and CEO of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
Genuine food insecurity in which people don’t know where their next meal is coming from is a subject that merits a lot of attention. By any fair assessment the fact that literally millions of North Carolinians – a large percentage of them children – go to bed hungry in the world’s richest nation is, or at least ought to be, a gigantic scandal.
As grim as some of these numbers are, recent actions in Washington – most notably big cuts to federal food assistance and the rising prices caused by the war in Iran –…
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