Fighting Poverty with Hope
FIGHTING POVERTY WITH HOPE Fighting Poverty with HOPE Joel Berg December 2016 P1 About the Author Joel Berg is CEO of Hunger Free America, a nationwide advocacy and directly service nonprofit organization. He is also the author ofAll You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?, the definitive and most well-reviewed book on American hunger of the past decade. Seven Stories Press will publish his second book, America We Need to Talk: a Self-Help Book for the Nation, in February 2017. This paper is an excerpt from that book. He has appeared on, or been quoted in, such outlets as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Up with Chris Hayes, All in with Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, CNN, Fox News, the NBC Evening News, Fox Business Network, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, National Public Radio, the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America, BET.com, the Financial Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Wall Street Journal, and other news organizations around the world in countries as diverse as Mexico, Germany, and South Korea. Joel currently leads Hunger Free America, formerly known as the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Joining the organization in 2001, Joel has grown the nonprofit into a multi- million-dollar, respected national champion for Americans struggling to obtain nutritious food. Prior to his work with Hunger Free America, Joel served for eight years in the Clinton Administration in senior executive service positions at USDA. He worked for the Progressive Policy Institute as a Policy Analyst in 1989-1990.
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