Kudos to businesses helping the hungry
Volunteers at the Mary Brennan Inn, a soup kitchen in Hempstead, in February 2008. Credit: Alejandra Villa
As a retired businessman, and today as an English as a second language teacher in Wyandanch, I applaud the important connection between the business community and the hunger problem on Long Island ["Business has a role in fighting hunger," Opinion, Dec. 7].
Writers Gregory J. Blass and John Imhof should be commended for suggesting that business take a more proactive role in helping poor families survive. When I managed a business function, I could not imagine any worker doing a good day's work if they worried whether their children had enough food to eat. A workforce (and its families) that has enough to eat is a motivated workforce, and therefore, more productive.
It makes good business sense for employers to assist in this task. It also makes one feel good to help another in need.
Edward J. Thompson, Sr.
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