Exodus From Hunger (24 page)

Oxfam America, 124

Palmberg, Glenn, 121

Parks, Rosa, 79

Partido de la Revolución

Democrática (PRD), 57

Pelham, Pat, 96, 98, 99, 100

Pelosi, Nancy, 104

people-to-people relationships, 175

philanthropists, 118–20

PICO, 179

Pitt, Brad, 115–16

Place at the Table, A
(U.S. Conference

of Catholic Bishops), 12–13

Plato, 82

politics, 65

crucial to reducing hunger, 10–13

grounded in spirituality, 167–68

supporting candidates, 177

poor people

economy’s importance to, 146–47

involving, in economic

recovery, 86–87

justice for, biblical theme of, 70–71

obligation toward, 68

poverty

breeding violence, 87

effects of, 22–23

as international security

threat, 87–88

not a priority among U.S.

presidential administrations, 43

numbers of people living in, 5

primary locations of, 22

progress against, pace of, 34

rate of, moving with unemployment, 43

in the United States, 7–8, 43–44

vulnerability to, 25–26

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 169

Presbyterian Women, 169

prophets, 69–70

Pulaski, Tessa, 144

Radelet, Steve, 36

radio stations, 36–37

Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service

(Bangladesh), 37, 38–39, 159

Reagan, Ronald, 27, 41, 43

RED, 115

Reed, Ralph, 120

Reid, Harry, 104

religious community, role of, in

charitable feeding, 10–11

Republic
(Plato), 82

RESULTS, 178

Rice, Susan, 87–88

Rising of Bread for the World, The

(Simon), 92

Robertson, Pat, 99, 120

Robin Run Retirement Center

(Indianapolis, IN), 103

Rockefeller, John D., 113

rotavirus, 118

Sachs, Jeffrey, 33

Saddleback Church, 121

Salvation Army, 170

Sarkar, Hubert, 39

Sarkar, Jerome, 37–40

Sarkar, Maria, 38, 39

Sasakawa, Ryoichi, 138

Sawyer, Diane, 116

school meals, 133

self-reliance, 84

Shriver, Bobby, 98, 118

Sider, Ron, 121

Simon, Arthur, 92, 161, 171

Simon, Paul, 92, 163

single-parent families, poverty

related to, 25

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), 11–12, 23, 44, 94, 101, 133, 134

social justice, working for, 173–74

social programs, in Sri Lanka, 50

social reform, 151–52, 170

Social Security, spending for, 147

Sodexo, 112

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 83

South Asia, famines in, 138

Soviet Union, fall of, 83

special interests, involvement

of, 89

Special Supplemental Nutrition

Program for Women, Infants, and Children

(WIC).
See
WIC

Sri Lanka, progress against

poverty in, 50–51, 59, 61

standards of living, rising, 47–48

Steves, Rick, 174

stimulus spending, 28–29, 146–47

Stonesifer, Patty, 119

Summers, Lawrence, 97

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

Program.
See
SNAP

tax credits, for poor working

families, 134–35

Templo Calvario (Orange

County, CA), 127

Thurow, Roger, 138

tithing, 170

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 84

trade, importance of, 149

travel, 174–75

Travel as a Political Act
(Steves), 174

Tutu, Desmond, 95

Uganda, communications in, 36–37

undernutrition

effective interventions for, 137

effects of, 21

rates of, 5–6

unemployment, pain of, 27

U.N. Food and Agriculture

Organization (FAO), 5, 113

United Kingdom, 58–59, 60

United Nations Children’s

Emergency Fund

(UNICEF), 93

United States

assistance to developing

countries, distribution of, 141

assisting with global poverty, 87

charitable giving in, 12

Department of Agriculture, 23, 61

development assistance from, 12, 141

development assistance in, related to national income, 84

ending food insecurity in, cost

of, 44

frustrations with government

of, 89–90

growing introspection of, 40

hunger and poverty in, 7–8, 23–25, 26, 84

ideals of, 15, 83

ignoring poor people, history

of, 84

influence of, in Mtimbe, 3–4

internal divisions in, 89

involving the poor in economic

recovery, 86–87

launching a global hunger

and food security initiative, 136–38

learning antipoverty lessons

from other nations, 60–61

living standards in, 40–41

measuring domestic hunger, 23

national nutrition programs, 11–12.
See also
SNAP, WIC

obesity in, 24

positive shift in, toward

hunger and poverty

issues, 111

priorities of, 83

reauthorization of programs, by Congress, 142–43

religious history of, 151

security of, threatened, 85–86

social changes in, 41–43

Universities Fighting World

Hunger, 112

U.S. Agency for International

Development (USAID), 142

U.S. Conference of Catholic

Bishops, 169

U2, 114

Van Cleave, Elaine, 96, 98, 99, 100

Vander Meulen, Rebecca, 1–2, 4

Vestal, Daniel, 121

Voices of the Poor
(Narayan), 22

voting, 177

Wallis, Jim, 116, 121

Warren, Kay, 121

Warren, Rick, 121

water stress, 140

wealth, gap in, 48, 54

welfare reform, 94, 101

Where Faith and Economics Meet

(Beckmann), 159

WIC (Special Supplemental

Nutrition Program for

Women, Infants, and Children), 44, 92–93, 133, 163–64

Wick, Connie, 102–3

Willow Creek Community

Church (South Barrington, IL), 121

Women, Infants, and Children

Supplemental Nutrition

Program.
See
WIC

workers, unskilled, depressed

wages for, 42

workplace, advocacy in, 176

World Bank, 22, 50, 54, 98, 100, 160–61

World Food Prize, 166

World Food Program, 113

World Vision, 112, 121–22

www.exodusfromhunger.org, 182

Youssef, Dolly, 115

Zero Hunger.
See
Fome Zero