{"id":52444,"date":"2015-11-29T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_bread_for_the_world_puts_price_tag_on_hunger_160_billion\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:20:17","slug":"rns_bread_for_the_world_puts_price_tag_on_hunger_160_billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52444","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Bread for the World puts price tag on hunger: $160 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunger and food insecurity are so widespread in the United States they add $160 billion to national health care spending, according to a Christian advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, said on Monday (Nov. 23) that hunger was a key factor in the U.S. having the worst infant mortality rate among developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is like a massive terrorist attack,\u201d\u009d he said at the presentation of the group\u2019s annual Hunger Report. \u201cAll the things that we do that allow the infant mortality rate to be so high \u201d\u201d that is in effect killing a hundred thousand babies in communities across this country a year.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/11\/23\/bread-world-puts-price-tag-hunger-160-billion-health-care\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunger and food insecurity are so widespread in the United States they add $160 billion to national health care spending, according to a Christian advocacy group. The Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, said on Monday (Nov.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,119,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-globalization","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}