Shift to 'Food Insecurity' Creates Startling New Picture of Hunger in America
Shift to 'Food Insecurity' Creates Startling New Picture of Hunger in America - The year was 1968, and the child was a subject of "Hunger in America," a CBS Reports documentary that aired amid President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. Other scenes showed sharecropper families with rat-infested bedding, and Mexican-Americans too hungry to move.