From the cover:

On the evening of February 25, 1985, the nation's television networks carried an astonishing item at the top of their news broadcasts. Twenty years after the advent of the Food Stamp program, some twenty million Americans were hungry- and the problem was getting worse. This is the unforgettable story of the flesh and blood behind the statistics- of the physicians and community health officials who travelled across America to document the return of widespread hunger to a bountiful land. We hear the voices of those who live hungry in America: the pregnant mother who denies herself milk to make it last longer for her children, the unemployed father driven from his home by government regulations that require a family to split apart in order to be eligible for food stamps. LIVING HUNGRY IN AMERICA is more than report on the epidemic of hunger in our midst. It is also a story of hope and a clarion call for justice. The tragedy of hunger can be eradicated even more swiftly than it was created. This remarkable book tells us how.