The Center on Hunger and Poverty: Based at
Brandeis University |
www.centeronhunger.org
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The Center is an outgrowth of the Harvard-based
Physician Task Force on Hunger in America which, during the
1980s, made field visits across the nation and released studies
on the extent and causes of hunger in the nation, leading
to Congressional resolve to address the growing problem at
that time. The leader of the Harvard initiative, Dr. J. Larry
Brown, created the Center as a vehicle to address not only
hunger, but its cause -- growing poverty and income inequality
in America. |
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The Food Research and Action Center: Based in Washington
D.C. |
www.frac.org
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The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading
national organization working to improve public policies to
eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States.
Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit
and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves
as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals
and agencies across the country. |
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Food First: Institute of Food and Development Policy based
in Berkeley |
www.foodfirst.org
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A member-supported, nonprofit peoples think tank and education-for-action
center. |
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Bread for the World: Seeking Justice, Ending Hunger |
www.bread.org
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Bread for the World's 46,000 members contact their senators
and representatives about legislation that affects hungry
people in the United States and worldwide. It does not provide
direct relief or development assistance, but focuses on using
the power of citizens in a democracy to support policies that
address the root causes of hunger and poverty. |
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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
www.cbpp.org
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Founded in 1981, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
has emerged over the past two decades as one of the leading
organizations in the country working on fiscal policy issues
and issues affecting low- and moderate-income families and
individuals. |
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The Children's Defense Fund |
www.childrensdefense.org |
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave
No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start,
a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start
in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help
of caring families and communities. |
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The Institute for Research on Poverty |
www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp
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The Institute for Research on Poverty:-established in 1966
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the U.S. Office
of Economic Opportunity, the organization given responsibility
for reducing poverty in America. The Institute for Research
on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based center for
research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social
inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan. |
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National Center for Children in Poverty |
www.cpmcnet.columbia.edu/
dept/nccp/ |
Its mission is to identify and promote strategies that
prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve
the lives of low-income children and their families. |
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End Hunger Network |
www.endhunger.com
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Bringing Americans together to End childhood hunger in
the United States. |
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Hunger and Food Insecurity in the Fifty States: 1998-2000
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www.centeronhunger.org/
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Using federal food security supplement data, this report ranks
all states in the nation on the prevalence of both hunger and food
insecurity for the three-year period ending in 2000. The analysis
also identifies the number of individuals in food secure and hungry
households in each state.
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