http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/07/a-note-of-thanks-from-missouri-rep-emerson/ The Campaign to Make Poverty History Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:18:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/07/a-note-of-thanks-from-missouri-rep-emerson/#comment-526671 Ken Horne Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:17:07 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/07/a-note-of-thanks-from-missouri-rep-emerson/#comment-526671 I'm wondering why the recent study on the cost of domestic hunger (in excess of 90 billion dollars a year in lost productivity, "emergency" charity outlays for food, and excess medical costs) is not high lighted in anti-hunger circles. The study was commissioned by Sodexho corporation and can be read at their website. Dr. J. Larry Brown(Harvard) and others conducted the study and did what appears to be a credible job. The punch line to all this is the concensus opinion among virtually all the leading lights in anti-hunger work in this country that hunger can be eliminated totally in America at a cost of about 10 Billion dollars per year. You would think that this would be a no brainer. And yet, here we are in the midst of redoing the farm bill and hardly anyone mentions the study or its' findings, and I see no one seriously advocating the elimination of hunger as an option. Whassup? I’m wondering why the recent study on the cost of domestic hunger (in excess of 90 billion dollars a year in lost productivity, “emergency” charity outlays for food, and excess medical costs) is not high lighted in anti-hunger circles. The study was commissioned by Sodexho corporation and can be read at their website. Dr. J. Larry Brown(Harvard) and others conducted the study and did what appears to be a credible job. The punch line to all this is the concensus opinion among virtually all the leading lights in anti-hunger work in this country that hunger can be eliminated totally in America at a cost of about 10 Billion dollars per year. You would think that this would be a no brainer. And yet, here we are in the midst of redoing the farm bill and hardly anyone mentions the study or its’ findings, and I see no one seriously advocating the elimination of hunger as an option. Whassup?

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