Rising poverty eating away at Bush's America [View All]

In the richest nation the world has ever known 9 million people are hungry, while child poverty levels and life expectancy are the worst in the industrialized world

The free food is handed out at 9am, but the queue starts forming hours earlier. By dawn, there is a line of cars stretching nearly a kilometer. In Logan, it is what passes for rush hour -- a traffic jam driven by poverty and hunger.

The cars come out of the Ohio hills in all shapes and sizes, from the old jalopies of the chronically poor, to the newer, sleeker models of the new members of the club, who only months ago considered themselves middle class, before jobs and their retirement funds evaporated.

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