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Nation briefs: 691,000 U.S. children went hungry in 2007

Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year's sharp economic downturn, the Agriculture Department reported yesterday. The department's annual report on food security showed that during 2007 the number of children who suffered a substantial disruption in the amount of food they typically...

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