Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression (Volume 53) (California Studies in Food and Culture) Cover
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Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat Food Assistance in the Great Depression (Volume 53) (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Janet Poppendieck

At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived as a "...

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Tracy Roof was mentioned as writing a whole book about the history of food assistance in the United States, which was not yet published at the time of the podcast.

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Today Explained is back. I'm Sean Romsvrim and Tracy Roof joins us now. She's an associate professor at the University of Richmond who focuses on domestic policy and is writing a whole book about the...

— Episode: We’re setting fire to food aid

Episode: We’re setting fire to food aid

Tracy Roof was mentioned as writing a whole book about the history of food assistance in the United States, which was not yet published at the time of the podcast.

"

Today Explained is back. I'm Sean Romsvrim and Tracy Roof joins us now. She's an associate professor at the University of Richmond who focuses on domestic policy and is writing a whole book about the history of food assistance in the United States.

Tracy Roof. Her book's not out yet, but it will be one day soon, we hope.

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