Hunger

Congressman McGovern believes very strongly that hunger and poverty, both here at home and abroad, are serious political issues that threaten the future of global stability and prosperity, and that we have a moral imperative to confront these concerns and work cooperatively towards a solution.

As the co-chair of both the Congressional Hunger Center and the Hunger Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, Jim McGovern has long been involved in the fight to end hunger. He is actively involved in the reauthorization of the U.S. child nutrition bill; he has worked closely on the development and implementation of the ‘Roadmap to End Global Hunger’; he was central in the creation of the Worcester Advisory Food Policy Council, which works to reduce hunger and increase food security in Worcester; and he has been instrumental in obtaining funding for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (named for former Senators George McGovern and Bob Dole), which helps support education, child development, and food security for some of the world’s poorest children.

Jim has long said that hunger is a political condition, and though we have the resources to end it, what we really need is the political will to make it happen.