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Hunger, money key to poverty, Heineman tells Congress

Washington AP. Ben Heineman head of the President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs told a Senate hunger committee that only a total attack with cash can cure hunger and poverty. He criticized food stamp and commodity programs as failing due to cost and knowledge, and warned that job programs alone won’t solve the problem. He noted one third of the poor live in worker-headed families and 20 percent are over 65. The commission’s final report is due late September or early October. Hearings on a War on Poverty extension and $1 billion to hunger programs were set to begin April 23.