As you explore the issues involved in this year’s Offering of Letters, Bread for the World Institute’s Hunger Report is a great resource for small group study. A Just and Sustainable Recovery: Hunger 2010 examines the challenges faced by low-income people here in the United States and the threat to future food supplies posed by global climate change. At the same time, it also examines the opportunities the current financial crisis gives us to change policies that keep people hungry and poor, including tax policy.
The report takes an in-depth look at the issues covered by Bread for the World’s 2010 Offering of Letters: expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and how we can meet the goal of ending childhood hunger in the United States by 2015. It also explores economic recovery from this current recession by increasing the availability of green jobs. Increased access to good jobs would address the poverty and lack of opportunity that are the main causes of hunger in the United States.
A Just and Sustainable Recovery includes a six-session study guide for adult Christian education classes or small group study. This biblically-based guide explores the theme of “right relationship.” Each session includes prayer, Scripture reflection, questions about the topical themes of the Hunger Report, and ideas for personal involvement and action.
Order A Just and Sustainable Recovery. This year, the Hunger Report has its own interactive Web site, www. hungerreport.org/2010. The site includes state-by-state and country-by-country data on hunger. It also allows users to explore the topics by issue. For example, if your interest is specifically in climate change or the recession, you can view all the information in the report on just that topic. The stories of the real people affected by the issues in the report are posted, along with space for viewers to share their own stories. Finally, short video interviews with Bread for the World Institute’s experts and policy analysts help the report come to life.
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