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Excerpt from Reauthorization of the Fema Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session; June 14, 1994
Good morning and welcome to everyone. We look forward to a good hearing this morning, and there is no question in my mind that this hearing will be very helpful to us.
The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program has been in existence since 1983, providing funds to local communities for emergency food and shelter services as well as homeless preven tion activity.
Unfortunately, 11 years after the creation of this program, the need for emergency food and shelter services continues to exist. Two of our Witnesses, Dr. Dennis P. Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania and Augusta Hamel of Second Harvest, will testify on their studies regarding emergency food and shelter needs in the United States.
I find the results of their studies shocking. In his study of New York City and Philadelphia, Dr. Culhane found that approximately 1 percent of both cities' populations stayed in shelters in 1992. In its survey on hunger in the United States, Second Harvest found that percent of the population - that is, Ameri cans - rely on food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless Shelter and other emergency feeding programs for their meals. That the prob lems of hunger and homelessness should continue to exist on such a scale is a tragedy.
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