Helping Solve Hunger in America

June 5, 2003, is National Hunger Awareness Day, designed to help raise awareness that hunger exists in America. 

Americans know that there is hunger in underdeveloped and war-torn countries around the globe, but they may not realize that there is hunger in the United States as well. In a focus group conducted in 2001 by the Advertising Council, the nation’s leading producer of public-service advertisements, one participant said, “If there were hungry children in America, we’d know about it. The p…