The politics of hunger

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Is hunger in America a choice?

This week, over 40 million people worried about losing their SNAP
benefits due to the government shutdown. But with Thanksgiving just
around the corner, who's hurt most by hunger? And why do some
believe that if you’re hungry, it’s your fault? Brittany gets into
it with Poonam Gupta, research associate at the Urban Institute,
and Maggie Dickinson, associate professor at Queens College and
author of Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment and America's
Food Safety Net.

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