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Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''Nearly one in five Americans could not afford the food they or their families needed at some point in the past year, and now anti-poverty advocates are pressing Congress to abandon proposed food stamp cuts as a historic drought threatens to drive up food prices across the country.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11067-millions-go-hungry-as-congress-considers-food-stamp-cuts-and-drought-threatens-crops

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US: June Foodstamp Recipients Hit All Time High

Three Times As Many Americans Enter Poverty As Find Jobs.
http://is.gd/g989Cf



Phoenix Mayor Loses 4 Pounds On A Week s Food Stamp Budget

By Bonnie Kavoussi

As part of Hunger Awareness Month, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton chose to experience what life is like for the 1.1 million food stamp recipients in Arizona.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32608.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Food price spikes will get worse as extreme weather caused by climate change devastates food production

New research shows that the full impact of climate change on future food prices is being underestimated, according to international agency Oxfam.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416816129ms335

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US Drought Batters Farmers as World Food Looms
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/04-5



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extreme+weather
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hunger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hungry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+stamps
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drought
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Ludwig
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bonnie+Kavoussi

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