Taking to the road to help the hungry

Mobile food markets are a good idea, but flawed in the proposed form. Relying on the nonprofit sector once again to provide for the poor leaves the plan — and the poor who we are supposed to be helping — at the whim of donors. Hunger is society’s problem and efforts to address it should be paid for by the society as a whole, which means it should be a government program.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

2 thoughts on “Taking to the road to help the hungry”

  1. At the risk of being repetitive, but how did \”hunger\” become \”society's problem\”? Then we can move on to the definition of who's \”poor\” and how you'll determine it.Argh, liberals are so funny!

  2. Oh, wow, it's so funny, poor people are funny. Yeah, whoopee, define poverty. Why, if you live in the USA, then by definition you can't be poor. Problem solved. Those damn funny poor people pretending to be poor, walking around doing poor things. Those stupid homeless people living on the street or tent cities, what a damn joke. Poverty is a big fat joke, I'm just laughing so hard I can't contain myself. Moochers should be left to die in their own vomit. Place their children in orphanages, foster homes or let the rich or the churches adopt the kids. Do away with the child labor laws and put the kids to work at 11 or 12 like they do in India. Those child labor laws are killing us, don't you know. See how easy that was.

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