For millions of American families, the rising food prices and the recession we are seeing unfortunately do not come as a sudden change in fortune. Instead, they come as an exacerbation of an already difficult situation. Tens of millions of people in this country, even before these events, were suffering from low and stagnant wages, inadequate benefits, and inadequate and often shrinking public supports. As a result, many of them were suffering real hardship even in the better times for the economy as a whole – at least better times as measured by GDP.

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