Y 4. AG 8/1:98-63 HUNGER IN THE UNITED STATES AND RELATED ISSUES HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC MARKETING, CONSUMER RELATIONS, AND NUTRITION OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE E (KIKA) DE LA GARZA, Texas, Chairman THOMAS S. FOLEY, Washington, Vice Chairman WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California TOM HARKIN, Iowa GLENN ENGLISH, Oklahoma CHARLES WHITLEY, North Carolina HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia LANE EVANS, Illinois ROBERT LINDSAY THOMAS, Georgia JAMES R. OLIN, Virginia TIMOTHY J. PENNY, Minnesota EDWARD R. MADIGAN, Illinois, ARLAN STANGELAND, Minnesota JOE SKEEN, New Mexico SID MORRISON, Washington GENE CHAPPIE, California PROFESSIONAL STAFF A. MARIO CASTILLO, Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC MARKETING, CONSUMER RELATIONS, AND NUTRITION CONTENTS Page 18 Ahern, Margaret M., executive director, Visiting Nurses Association of Chica- Carp, Joel M., assistant executive director, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and cochairman, Mayor's Task Force on Hunger Coler, Gregory L., director, Illinois Department of Public Aid. Davis, Erma, member, President's Task Force on Food Assistance. Frick, Roger L., executive director, United Way of Danville; chairman, State Geltzeiler, Nancy, executive director, The Ark.. Hammond, Anna M., county extension adviser, home economics, University of Weliczko, John, executive director, Polish Welfare Association.... Yolich, Sharon L., community volunteer, Heart of Uptown Coalition Young, Quentin, M.D., professor, preventive medicine and community health, 228 SUBMITTED MATERIAL Ahrens, Robert J., director, office for senior citizens and handicapped, city of Edwards, Lonnie C., M.D., M.P.A., commissioner, Chicago Department of Food Justice Programs, Chicago, Ill., statement. Fox, Thomas, editor, Chicago Hunger Watch Report 1983, chair, Chicago Metropolitan Anti-Hunger Coalition; Thomas Joyce, chair, Claretian Justice and Peace Committee; Dorothy Gartland, staff, 8th Day Center for Justice, Mayor Washington's Task Force on Hunger, statement.. Willhoite, Betty, president, League of Women Voters of Chicago, letter of Feb. MARCH 30, 1984, MIAMI, FLA. Emerson, Hon. Bill, a Representative in Congress from the State of Missouri, 193 Clarkson, Kenneth W., director, law and economics center, University of Miami, and member, President's Task Force on Food Assistance... Wagner, Patricia A., associate professor of human nutrition, Institute of Food 256 SUBMITTED MATERIAL Smith, Hon. Lawrence J., a Representative in Congress from the State of 343 HUNGER IN THE UNITED STATES AND RELATED ISSUES FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1984 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC MARKETING, CONSUMER RELATIONS, AND NUTRITION, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Chicago, IL. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:10 a.m., in the Marillac House, Chicago, IL, Hon. Leon E. Panetta (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representative Emerson. Also present: Representatives Collins, Savage, and Hayes. Staff present: Julia W. Kogut, clerk; Robert J. Fersh, Nancy Chapman, and Lynn Gallagher. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. LEON E. PANETTA, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Mr. PANETTA. The Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition is in order for the purpose of conducting the hearing on hunger and related issues here in Chicago. I am Representative Leon Panetta and I chair the subcommittee, which is a subcommittee of the Agriculture Committee on the House side. With me today is Representative Bill Emerson, on my left, who is the ranking Republican on the subcommittee. I would like to also welcome Cardiss Collins, I think Charles Hayes is here, and others who will join us during the course of the day for this hearing. For those of you who may not be familiar with the work of the subcommittee, we are the subcommittee with primary jurisdiction over the Food Stamp Program and various commodity distribution programs that serve the hungry in this country. We've been actively involved in investigating this issue over the course of the last year, conducting field hearings in Cleveland, Birmingham, Los Angeles, and many other hearings in Washington to study the issue. Our subcommittee originated legislation to provide increased and more effective distribution of surplus commodities, and we were also involved in the preventing hunger at home resolution which passed the House last year by a vote of 407 to 16. What our hearings revealed last year was that hunger throughout this country is an increasing problem, in many instances, achieving disturbing proportions. Witnesses from all parts of the country reported substantial, and in many cases, dramatic in (1) |