Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: Can we at least agree that no American should go hungry?
Actually, no. Of course, Biden will do everything he can to try to neutralize the inflation issue this fall. But believe it or not, this conference grew out of a bipartisan effort in Congress to highlight the problem of hunger and insist that a very rich country should be able to wipe it out.
They were joined by two Indiana Republicans, Sen. Mike Braun and Rep. Jackie Walorski. At the time, Braun spoke of the simple moral sense behind the effort. “There is no reason,”Advertisement The last White House conference on hunger was organized in 1969 by none other than President Richard M. Nixon, who went on to clobber McGovern in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern nonetheless praised Nixon for his work on hunger, a reminder of a time when even archrivals could work together — and when leaders in both parties were willing to embrace a substantial role for government in problem-solving.
And Biden will be able to take a bow at the conference for new rules on nutrition standards for food stamps that led, as the New York Times’s Jason DeParleThe conference is timely because while this Biden policy will endure, many pandemic-era programs are lapsing, which will set back the fight against hunger. Even with the recent advances, roughly 1 in 10 Americans, and McGovern noted that “returning to the pre-covid status quo would leave tens of millions of people hungry.
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