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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsGrowing Up Empty: How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Childrenby Loretta Schwartz-nobel
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Growing Up Empty is a study of the hidden hunger epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels and "an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims" (William Raspberry, Washington Post). Twenty years after Ronald Reagan declared that hunger was no longer an American problem, Schwartz-Nobel shows that hunger has reached epic proportions, running rampant through urban, rural, and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians and Jews, and nonbelievers alike. Among the people we come to know are the new homeless. Born of the "Welfare to Work" program, these working poor have jobs but do not make enough to support their families, such as the formerly middle-class housewife reduced to stealing in order to feed her children, or the soldier fighting on our front lines while his young wife stands in bread lines and is denied benefits and baby formula at a military health clinic. With skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's humanitarian eye for detail, Schwartz-Nobel portrays a haunting reality of human suffering that need not exist. A call to action, Growing Up Empty is advocacy journalism at its best. Synopsis:In Starving in the Shadow of Plenty, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel laid bare the horrifying truth about hunger in America. 20 years later, Loretta went out to see how things had improved. She was shocked to find that hunger is once again running rampant, and has reached epidemic proportions. To makes things worse, countless millions of federal dollars and many of our country’ s most successful efforts to halt the spread of childhood hunger and starvation have recently been withdrawn. Requests for emergency food assistance increased by 23% between 2000 and 2001. And September 11th only made things worse. Growing Up Empty dramatically portrays the hunger found in middle- and working-class families, the suddenly homeless, as well as America’ s military families, its refugees, and its immigrants. A call to action, here is a study of a hidden epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels. About the Author Loretta Schwartz-Nobel has won the Women in Communications Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Award, the Penny Missouri Award, the coveted Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Award, and has twice won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for outstanding coverage of the problems of the disadvantaged. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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