"If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger." — US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Dear Sharra, Last week I visited the Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas, where they serve more than 271,000 people who are food insecure in Southern Nevada alone. That means one in eight people there don't know where their next meal is coming from. Children and seniors are the most vulnerable populations; one in five children live in food insecure households. 65% of the students in that school district rely on free or reduced priced meals. 
With Brian Burton, President and CEO of Three Square
It's hard to believe this is America, right? Yet this is not just how things are in Nevada. It is the situation throughout America, the richest country in the world. 41 million of our fellow Americans go hungry every day. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), more than 12 million children in the United States live in "food insecure" homes. Hungry people are less likely to vote & people who aren't hungry are less likely to notice. But when I am elected president, not one hungry child will go unnoticed by me. Hunger in America is an eminently solvable problem, still in existence in the richest country in the world for only one reason: that we have not exerted the political will to end it. This kind of moral dysfunction is at the heart of many of our national challenges, and it's only in addressing them at that level that we will be able to solve them. Please give as generously as you can, so that our campaign to reclaim the soul of America can be all that it can be. Let us not forget the hungry. Let us not acquiesce to societal greed. Let us not allow ourselves to be corrupted by voices that say money, not love, is what matters most. 
We will end hunger in America when and if we decide to. It is a pillar of my campaign that as a nation we must eradicate this scourge. And with your help, we will. With love for all of us…
Marianne PS: Please remember we need 65,000 unique donations of even $1 to make it to the DNC debate stage in June! To those of you who have been spreading the word and increasing your donations, I am deeply grateful. If you haven't yet donated, I hope you will consider sending at least $1 now. Also: 
Please join my next Live Citizen Campaign Call -- The Case for Reparations: A Conversation with William Darity and Kirsten Mullen -- on Wednesday, March 27 at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET. Click here to register for the call.
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