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U.S. is a land of plenty, so why do millions of Americans still go hungry?

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Are people in the U.S. getting enough to eat?

Unfortunately, even though the U.S. is bountiful and the world’s biggest individual exporter of food, millions of Americans actually are not.

Each year the Department of Agriculture runs a nationwide survey to determine how many people go hungry. The latest figures show almost 6 percent of...

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