Over 47 million Americans are already food insecure, and that number is expected to increase thanks to Trump’s budget.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/70449

During the first term of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the Reagan administration denied that hunger and malnutrition were significant issues in the U.S. In response, the Food Research & Action Center and other anti-hunger advocacy groups began developing large-scale hunger surveys to chart the problem. The advocacy groups started collecting large-scale hunger data first in Connecticut and…

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  • Curious Canid@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is one of the rare exceptions to the rule that the answer to any headline phrased as a question is no.

    Yes. That is absolutely what this is about. And there are many other examples related to crime, climate change, and even the economy. They’re lying in any reports they can and killing any reports where they aren’t set up to lie.