October 8, 1998

Food Banks Merit Praise, Not Criticism

To the Editor:

Far from "intensifying poverty and eroding government assistance," as Janet Poppendieck charges in her recent opinion piece ("Emergency Food: Moving Beyond the Hunger Trap," My View, September 10), food banks and food-rescue programs are the only groups keeping millions of Americans from conditions of serious hunger. With "welfare reform" in our wake and "welfare to work" at hand, hundreds of food banks and food-rescue programs have fast become

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