Surf these sites: End Hunger Network -- Works with the entertainment community to create media projects, programs and events aimed at ending hunger. Hunger contributes to child mortality in the U.S. Ten out of every one thousand children die before reaching their fifth birthday, a higher rate than in any other developed country. FRAC - Hunger in the U.S. -- Approximately four million American children under age 12 go hungry and about 9.6 million more are at risk of hunger according to estimates based on the results of the most comprehensive study ever done on childhood hunger in the United States - the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP) FRAC - Public Attitudes Toward Hunger -- The public is very concerned about what is seen as a growing hunger problem. Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) -- National anti-hunger organization that lobbies on behalf of Food Stamps, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program, and other federal food and nutrition programs. National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) -- Uses demographic research and program and policy analyses to identify and promote strategies that reduce young child poverty and that improve the lives of poor young children. "There are over 14 million children living in poverty in the United States. More than 5 million of them are under age six. The young child poverty rate is significantly higher in the United States than in other Western industrialized nations." Second Harvest -- America''s food bank network and the nation''s largest hunger-relief charity. Second Harvest - Hunger: The Faces & Facts -- An unprecedented study of who''s hungry in America, where they go for food, and the health and social consequences of widespread hunger. Sketches of Hunger -- Stories of real people who turned to NW Harvest, and some happy endings.
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