Key Takeaways:

• Investigates why hunger and severe malnutrition persist in a wealthy nation, focusing on bureaucratic failures and political cynicism.
• Exposes the gap between soaring rhetoric about the “War on Poverty” and the underfunded, poorly administered programs that leave children and marginalized communities hungry.
• Frames hunger as a political and moral scandal rather than a natural or unavoidable condition, helping to energize anti‑hunger advocacy and policy reform.