U.S. hunger rising

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a startling new report : 50 percent more children in this country went hungry last year, and almost one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately. And this was before the economy tanked, so those numbers are expected to rise for 2008. James Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger group, told the AP economic growth during the first seven years of the Bush administration didn’t reach the poorest and hungriest people. “The people in the deepest poverty are suffering the most,” he said.