The New York City Coalition Against Hunger is the voice for the more than 1,200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City and the more than 1.4 million low-income New Yorkers who live in homes that can’t afford enough food. The Coalition works not only to meet these residents' immediate food needs but also to enact innovative solutions to help society move "beyond soup kitchens" to ensure economic and food self-sufficiency for all.
Despite the skyrocketing wealth of the city’s 57 billionaires, the median income of families in New York City declined and the number of people in poverty soared, according to federal data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Even before the worst of the current economic downturn, child hunger was a serious problem in the United States. In 2008, 16.6 million American children—more than one in five—lived in homes that couldn’t afford enough food for their families. The Great Recession has only made matters worse.
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