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" If you caught this week&amp;#039;s episode of Mad Men, you saw Bobby Draper trade his mother&amp;#039;s sandwich for some gumdrops from a classmate. While most of the attention was on Betty&amp;#039;s sour reaction, I couldn&amp;#039;t help but think about the little girl who made the trade. Why had her mother actually packed gumdrops for her lunch in lieu of a sandwich? It&amp;#039;s possible the little girl&amp;#039;s mother gave her gumdrops because that&amp;#039;s all she had. While we don&amp;#039;t know if Bobby&amp;#039;s little friend was dealing with childhood hunger, it was a big issue in 1969 \u2014 in December, Richard Nixon, quoted as saying, &amp;quot;The time has come to end hunger in America,&amp;quot; pushed Congress to authorize free and reduced-price lunches for needy children via sufficient funding (in addition to the meal-replacement program already in existence). And in January 1970, U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings even wrote about the problem for Good Housekeeping:  Today, we at Good Housekeeping are still just as concerned about this problem. One in five kids in America struggle with getting enough to eat. We&amp;#039;ve recently teamed up with the No Kid Hungry campaign to help end childhood hunger.  Learn how you can help us end a problem that has been around for far too long. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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