America’s Hidden Shame: Child Hunger Broken down and tired? Feeling alone and scared? Those are the emotions of every little boy or girl that faces hunger in America. The Feeding America website explicitly states, “72% of households live at or below the federal poverty level with a median annual household income of $9,175.” This suggests that a vast number of children in the US today still wonder when their next meal will be. The despairing truth is that child hunger is still ongoing; this is a growing epidemic problem with over 41 million Americans struggling to survive. Child hunger is still a prevalent issue that impacts the nation. The photograph below was publicized by the PEACE Fund Radio to spread awareness of child hunger by appealing to the audience’s logic through statistics and their emotions through the visible despair in the child’s eye. Child hunger is not the type of hunger where one craves a chocolate bar or a bag of chips; it is when a child suffers from maln...