Congress Agrees To Add $10 Billion To Nutrition Programs

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Source: Workers Independent News

By Doug Cunningham

There will be $10 billion more going into U.S. nutrition programs, including food stamps. Congress agreed on Thursday to pump in the additional money. As Congress beefs up nutrition programs for the poor in the U.S., the world faces a growing food crisis. In Britain a food summit convened by warned that skyrocketing food prices could plunge more than 100 million people into hunger around the world. A shocking estimate from the food summit put the number of people in the world dying daily from hunger at 25,000. Prime Minister Brown says worldwide food shortages threaten to destabilize nations and is on a par with global turmoil in the financial markets.

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