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Title: Growing Up Empty : The Hunger Epidemic in America by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel ISBN: 0-06-019563-0 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Top notch
Comment: I just finished reading this book and I must say it's one of the most influential books I've ever read. I knew there are starving people in America, but the sheer number is almost unbelievable. Let's tell our politicians to stop trying to garner more votes by the sob stories they tell about developing nations needing food, and to start saving the lives of our hungry friends and neighbors.
Rating: 5
Summary: people need to face reality
Comment: This book was part of a project in school. I have been back to school for over a year and this is the first time that I felt so passionate about something I was reading. Even though some of the stories are horrific, I really felt moved to do something about this awful epidemic. We see commercials on TV or magazines about helping the hungry in other countries. These are very noble causes. But what about America? There are millions of people in our own country, so many of them children, who don't know where their next meal will come from. It really shows the sad truth of what is happening in America. So much food in this country is wasted (www.secondharvest.org) and people are starving, yet there is also a problem with obesity in this country. I work for WA state and work in a welfare office. Many things the book states are true, and frustrating for me as a worker, and I know for so many of the clients we are supposed to be helping. I urge those of you who are thinking of buying this book, please do. It is a wonderful read, but be prepared with a box of tissue if you are soft at heart. Some parts are tear jerking.
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling but frustrating
Comment: You can't put this book down. It is heartbreaking and makes you take action. First thing Monday morning, I'm going to deliver a load of food to the local food bank and ask about volunteering there. It is frustrating to realize that I cannot do too much to solve the overall problem, thinking that it is better to teach someone to fish than to give them a fish.The stories in the book are also frustrating because there are a lot of unanswered questions. The middle-class woman whose doctor husband left her- why couldn't she rent out part of the house and get some money? And then rent another room at a reduced rate to a student, with partial exchange for child care. Then she can work or go to school. I was also intrigued by the army man whose children are starving. Meanwhile, he is smoking cigarettes. (They are expensive!)
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Title: The Working Poor : Invisible in America by DAVID K. SHIPLER ISBN: 0375408908 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 |
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Title: Growing Up Empty : How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Children by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel ISBN: 0060954868 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: World Hunger: Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, Institute for Food and Development Policy ISBN: 0802135919 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz ISBN: 0385265565 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Foundations of Community Health Nursing: Community-Oriented Practice by Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster ISBN: 0323008615 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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