Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
A U.S. anti-hunger group marked April Fools' Day on Monday with a snarky statement suggesting that hungry Americans 'can eat positive economic statistics about the soaring stock market or the growing gross domestic product.' 'Let them eat GDP reports,' Hunger Free America declared of the 44 million Americans—including 13 million children—who live in food insecure households, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
' 'But the good news is that, none of that matters now, because truckloads of positive economic reports are being shipped to food banks, soup kitchens, and food pantries nationwide, and the country's impoverished multitudes can now get all they can eat—assuming they can digest paper report pages and cardboard report covers, and don't mind a bit of poisonous ink,' he quipped.
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