Nick Arent, State Organizer nick (at) fairshareonline.org
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Report: Childhood Hunger in America’s Suburbs
This Fair Share Education Fund report vividly demonstrates how the geography of childhood hunger has changed since the onset of the Great Recession, from 2007 to 2009. The money stat: Of the millions of schoolchildren who became eligible for the National School Lunch Program after the Great Recession hit, fully 45 percent of them live in America’s suburbs. 23 percent live in cities, 20 percent live in rural areas and 12 percent live in small- or mid-sized towns. Get the report (PDF).