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Fortune
Dilip Rao

Solving hunger is America’s lowest-hanging fruit

SNAP (Credit: MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Hunger, sadly, is as American as apple pie: a crisis we seem to revisit each budget cycle but never resolve.

With the record-breaking federal government shutdown finally over and access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) no longer entering the Supreme Court’s domain, millions of Americans have been once again caught in the crossfire of political brinkmanship. The country’s food safety net — already in tatters — has been grievously abused.

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