This report delves into the impacts of child hunger on the economy and stresses that sustainable economic recovery cannot occur until child hunger is eliminated. The report was released by Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization.
“Child hunger is robbing us of the best of America’s imagination and ingenuity,” said the report’s author, John Cook, Ph.D., of the Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, a nationally-recognized expert on child hunger. “Sustainable economic recovery depends on freeing children of the burden of hunger and malnutrition and supporting their optimal growth and development.”
Read the report here The Economic Impact on Our Nation.