Amy Beros discusses the persistent hunger crisis that plagues central and eastern North Carolina

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: June 8, 2026

Words: 174

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Genuine food insecurity in which people don’t know where their next meal is coming from is a subject that merits a lot of attention. By any fair assessment the fact that literally millions of North Carolinians – a large percentage of them children – go to bed hungry in the world’s richest nation is, or at least ought to be, a gigantic scandal.

As grim as some of these numbers are, recent actions …

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