How is this Possible in the US?

This is simply unacceptable in a country that has the largest economy in the world.

The crazy thing is that as much as I'd like to I can't pin it all on Bush since the second highest rate was in 1998, at the height of the dot.com and Clinton era.

Such a shame.

From Newsnet5.com...

New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year before to mark the highest point since 1998. And that's even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.

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