{"product_id":"growing-up-empty-how-federal-policies-are-starving-americas-children-paperback","title":"Growing Up Empty: How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Children - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLoretta Schwartz-Nobel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrowing Up Empty\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of the hidden hunger epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels and \"an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims\" (William Raspberry, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwenty years after Ronald Reagan declared that hunger was no longer an American problem, Schwartz-Nobel shows that hunger has reached epic proportions, running rampant through urban, rural, and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians and Jews, and nonbelievers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the people we come to know are the new homeless. Born of the \"Welfare to Work\" program, these working poor have jobs but do not make enough to support their families, such as the formerly middle-class housewife reduced to stealing in order to feed her children, or the soldier fighting on our front lines while his young wife stands in bread lines and is denied benefits and baby formula at a military health clinic.\u003c\/p\u003eWith skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's humanitarian eye for detail, Schwartz-Nobel portrays a haunting reality of human suffering that need not exist. A call to action, \u003cem\u003eGrowing Up Empty\u003c\/em\u003e is advocacy journalism at its best.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 02, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52915205669180,"sku":"9780060954864","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7265\/1324\/files\/aDhPTTV5Z05mSEdrZFdoanc3SmlUdz09.webp?v=1774360877","url":"https:\/\/barginbooks.co\/products\/growing-up-empty-how-federal-policies-are-starving-americas-children-paperback","provider":"Books Fare ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}