All you can eat : how hungry is America? / Joel Berg.

New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2008.

351 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm

Seven Stories Press 1st ed.

Includes one folded col. plate.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-339) and index.

Hunger amidst plenty : a problem as American as apple pie -- The problem. Who is hungry in America? : the politics of measuring hunger ; How hunger costs all of us ; Why brother (and sister) still can't spare a dime : a short history of domestic hunger ; The tattered (but still existing) Federal hunger safety net ; Let them eat ramen noodles : one week living on $28.30 of food ; Are Americans hungry-- or fat? ; Dickens revisited : life in the new Gilded Age ; Let them eat sound bites : the polarized politics of welfare reform ; The poverty trap : why it is so hard to escape poverty in America ; The charity myth ; How media ignores hunger (except during holidays and hurricanes) -- The solution. Here it is : the plan to end domestic hunger ; Bolstering community food production and marketing ; A new war on poverty ; How all of us (including you) can end hunger in America ; Hunger and poverty-fighting resources ; Revised rules for radical centrists : tips for activists on how to organize and craft messages for successful advocacy campaigns.