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Some of nation's hungriest neighborhoods found in New York City

Ramiro Funez AND Nicholas Hirshon New York Daily News 03/09/2011
Some of nation's hungriest neighborhoods found in New York City

Some of the hungriest neighborhoods in the country are in New York City - and their hunger pangs could be getting worse.

US food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record

Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps -- the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update.

 
United Nations: World's slums are growing

While more than 200 million people moved out of slum conditions in the past decade, the overall population of slums has risen by 55 million in the same period, a new United Nations report finds.