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Hunger is "discovered" in the U.S.

Date: 1967

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U.S. senators Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy tour the Mississippi Delta as representatives of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty. Shocked by what they see, they return to Washington, D.C. to develop federal programming that begins to name and work to combat malnutrition and starvation within U.S. borders.