People are hungry now and public food supplies must be increased immediately. That’s the view of a Minnesota activist on poverty and hunger concerns, who says that, while state efforts to end poverty by the year 2020 are all very well, there are more immediate needs which must be addressed.

Colleen Moriarty with the group Hunger Solutions Minnesota says funding for public food aid hasn’t gone up since the funding was established, but that demand for food from the program is up 50 percent in the past six years, and double-digit increases, just in the past eight months.

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