The politics of hunger : It's Been a Minute

✍️ Brittany Luse Liam Mcbain Neena Pathak, Brittany Luse, Liam Mcbain, Neena Pathak 📅 October 31, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 31, 2025

Summary: Is hunger in America a choice?This week, over 40 million people worried about losing their SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. But with Thanksgiving just around the corner, who's hurt most by hunger? And why do some believe that if you’re hungry, it’s your fault? Brittany gets into it with Poonam Gupta, research associate at the Urban Institute, and Maggie Dickinson, associate professor at Queens College and author of Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment and America's Food Safety Net.

The politics of hunger

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Is hunger in America a choice?

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