{"id":70468,"date":"2004-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/authoreducator-to-speak-about-hunger-abatement-beyond-charity\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"authoreducator-to-speak-about-hunger-abatement-beyond-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/10\/authoreducator-to-speak-about-hunger-abatement-beyond-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Author\/educator to speak about hunger abatement beyond charity"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTalk is part of this fall\u2019s Honors Colloquium<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. — October 7, 2004 — In her book, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, Hunter College Sociologist Janet Poppendieck argues that while charity feeds the poor, it has also become the basis for complacency. <\/p>\n


\nPrior to the 1980s, our nation did not have the army of food banks, soup kitchens, and food pantries that dot America\u2019s landscape today. Yet their appearance in virtually every community marks the continual rise in the number of people who are hungry or food insecure in direct response to the decrease in government assistance. Poppendieck suggests then, that private sector food programs should not be interpreted as a sign of success in the fight to end hunger, but rather of political failure.<\/p>\n


\nPoppendieck will be the featured speaker at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. Her talk, free and open to the public, is part of this fall\u2019s Honors Colloquium \u201cFood & Human Rights, Hunger & Social Policy.\u201d It will be held in the Barry Marks Auditorium, Room 271, Chafee Social Science Center. <\/p>\n


\nPoppendieck\u2019s primary concerns as a scholar and as an activist have been poverty, hunger, and food assistance in the United States. From 1988 until 2001, she served as the director of the Hunter College Center for the study of family policy, where she helped to start the Welfare Rights Initiative, the Community Interpreter Project and the Language Diversity Initiative.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to Sweet Charity, she is the author of Breadlines Knee Deep in the Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression and articles on hunger, food assistance and public policy.<\/p>\n


\n\tPoppendieck serves on the boards of directors of the Community Food Resource Center and the Association for the Study of Food and Society and on the advisory committees of City-as-School and the Welfare-Rights Initiative and is currently writing a book on the significance of the Universal School Breakfast Program. <\/p>\n


\n\tMajor sponsors for the colloquium include Edward W. Bouclin, The Providence Journal, Theta Chi Fraternity, 溏心vlog免费B站 \u2018s College of Arts & Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of the Environment & Life Sciences, College of Human Science & Services, Division of University Advancement, Honors Program, Office of the Provost, and President\u2019s Office. Co-sponsors include 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, Multicultural Center; Office of Student Affairs; Partnership on Food, Hunger, and Nutrition; Women\u2019s Center and Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor the most current colloquium information, visit www.uri.edu\/hc or call 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk is part of this fall\u2019s Honors Colloquium KINGSTON, R.I. — October 7, 2004 — In her book, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, Hunter College Sociologist Janet Poppendieck argues that while charity feeds the poor, it has also become the basis for complacency. Prior to the 1980s, our nation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}