Books by Andrew Fisher
“He…shows that the big food companies squash any attempt for advocacy on increasing wages. He demonstrates that those big companies are the ones paying the CEOs of the food banks high salaries so the people who run the food banks don’t advocate on hunger. They’re just pushing food around. They’re not really working to address hunger, nor have they even read books about hunger…Hunger is big business.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Andrew Fisher were recommended
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
by Annelise Orleck -
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
by William J. Barber II -
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Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
by Janet Poppendieck -
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Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
by Andrew Fisher -
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Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
Hunger in the United States is not going to be solved just by giving people more food, says Mariana Chilton, a professor of public health at Drexel University and author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. She recommends books to get a better understanding of hunger and argues that food banks have become part of the problem.
