CHAPTER 1

Introduction

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hunger in America reports 49 million people in the United States were at risk for being hungry in 2010–1 in 6 people.1 Why do people go hungry in the richest country in the world?

Let’s create a nation where everyone has enough to eat every day!

Homeless in Minnesota, a triennial statewide study completed by Wilder Research of the Wilder Foundation, states, “On October 25, 2012, 10,214 homeless ...

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