USA: Child Hunger up 50% in '07 to nearly 700000

-Associated Press

WASHINGTON - New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year before to mark the highest point since 1998. And that's even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.

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