Hope in the Congo
THE JOURNAL takes viewers on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo to follow aid workers and local relief efforts that are bringing hope to a forgotten land. "The aid agencies are almost substituting for a social welfare system that hasn't operated in these areas for decades," says Dominic MacSorley, Emergency Director for Concern Worldwide, an international aid organization.

Barbara Ehrenreich
Bill Moyers talks with author Barbara Ehrenreich about inequality in America.


NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: Life on the Edge
NOW WITH BILL MOYERS' 2002 broadcast "Life on the Edge" told the stories of families living in Oregon, a state found by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have a high rate of "food insecurity" and hunger.

Bread for the World
Bread for the World is a nationwide faith-based citizens' movement against hunger that mobilizes a quarter of a million constituent letters to Congress each year. Since 2000, the organization has helped to double U.S. funding for poverty-focused development assistance. Bread for the World has also helped to win increases in nutrition assistance for food-insecure people in the United States since the late 1990s – to a total that now exceeds $50 billion a year. Their Web site includes facts and figures on hunger and issue briefs.

The Alliance Against Hunger
The Alliance Against Hunger is a national anti-hunger campaign that brings together people of conscience across all faiths, cultures, and political ideologies. Among the goals of the Alliance are: Ending hunger in the United States and worldwide is attainable in a decade. Ending hunger requires a strong public commitment and greater leadership from the U.S. government. Ending hunger is the responsibility of individuals, the private sector, communities, civil society and government.

Lyndon Baines Johnson on the 1964 Food Stamp Act
When authorizing The Food Stamp Act as part of his War on Poverty, LBJ stated "It is one of many sensible and needed steps we have taken to apply the power of America's new abundance to the task of building a better life for every American." In 2007, an average of 26.5 million people used food stamps each month.

The International Alliance Against Hunger
In 2002, when the World Food Summit: five years later convened to look at progress, delegates became acutely aware of the need to work together to accelerate the global effort if they were to reach the Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals. The International Alliance Against Hunger is a consortium of local, national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: The state of food insecurity in the world
The state of food insecurity in the world reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit: to reduce by half the number of undernourished people in the world by the year 2015.

CARE, World Hunger Campaign
Facts about this specific campaign to end hunger with a link to sign the world hunger petition.

Concern America
Concern America is an international development and refugee aid organization that provides long-term, community-based development and support to economically impoverished communities throughout the world.

International Food Policy Research Institute
Data and publications regarding research on solutions to poverty and hunger with links to resources for global research on agriculture, hunger, poverty and the environment.

NEWSHOUR EXTRA: World Hunger on the Rise
The ONLINE NEWSHOUR takes a look at the goals of the World Food Summit.

UNICEF, Malnutrition: The Challenge
UNICEF end-of-decade review (1990-2000) of child malnutrition and its impact.

World Food Program
Contains information to learn more about what causes hunger and where it exists in the world.

World Health Organization, Deficiency Diseases
Resources on diseases and problems emerging from malnourishment.

CASH COWS & COWBOY STARTER KITS
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with the PBS series EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in "wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures" that have flowed from Washington to America's farmers

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THE FARM BILL: DOWN HOME IN CONGRESS
What's in the farm bill? And, what's behind the debate over its passage.

HUNGER IN AMERICA
Why are America's food banks suffering shortages? Find out what you can do to help.

DAVID BECKMANN, BREAD FOR THE WORLD
Bill Moyers talks with the president of Bread for the World about the challenges of combatting hunger.

MOYERS DIGITAL ARCHIVE: Life on the Edge
NOW WITH BILL MOYERS' 2002 broadcast "Life on the Edge" told the stories of families living in Oregon, a state found by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have a high rate of "food insecurity" and hunger.