USA Today: Hunger pains: U.S. food program struggles to move forward
“After more than 60 years of feeding the world’s hungry overseas, the U.S. Agency for International Development is scrambling to overhaul the world’s largest government food assistance program. The U.S. spends more than half of its international food aid budget transporting life-saving commodities through a tangled system of special interests and government bureaucracy — more than $9 billion in taxpayer dollars over a recent 10-year period, finds a Medill/USA TODAY investigation…” (Allen et al., 9/26).