All You Can Eat ─ How Hungry Is America?

Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation - the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger - one in eight Americans today is food insecure - is a problem as American as apple pie, and that, more and more, America is becoming a country Where people not only have a hard time advancing, but often find themselves in quicksand, working inexhaustibly and still not meeting the expenses of everyday living.
Berg takes to task politicians who remain inactive; the media, which ignores hunger except during holidays and hurricanes; the food industry, which makes fattening, artery-clogging fast food more accessible to the nation's poor than healthy fare; and ordinary citizens for thinking that food pantries alone can fix the problem. Finally, he challenges the new president to confront this most unthinkable result of US poverty, and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good - what better way to start making change in America? A spirited call to action, All You Can Eat shows how practical solutions for hungry Americans will ultimately benefit America's economy and all of its citizens.

Joel Berg is executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH). He served for eight years under the Clinton administration in senior executive service positions in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).