How do we end hunger?
For months, we’ve watched the images — from San Diego to Dallas to Pittsburgh — of long lines of cars with men and woman waiting patiently, hopefully, for food they could no longer afford to buy. We read the news about how, even before the pandemic began, hunger was a gnawing problem. In San Diego, one in seven residents were said to be food insecure. Now, after waves of lockdowns and downturns, that number is more like one in three. So I set out to use this first column of the year to ask why we who live in the richest nation on the planet cannot resolve to end hunger once and for all....