Joel Berg
jberg@nyccah.org
Joel Berg is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of hunger, food security and national and community service. He is the author a book, 'All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?,' published by Seven Stories Press in November 2008.
Berg currently serves as Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, which represents the city's more than 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries, as well as the more than 1 million New Yorkers who rely on them. Before joining the Coalition Against Hunger, Berg served in senior Executive Service positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for eight years, and from 1999 to 2001 acted as Coordinator of Community Food Security. He created and implemented the first-ever Federal Government initiative to enable faith-based and other nonprofit groups fight hunger, bolster food security, and help low-income Americans move from poverty to self-sufficiency – work he continues at the Coalition Against Hunger.
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Contributions
Reporting on the 'hidden' issue of domestic hunger
ASK THIS | February 10, 2005
News organizations should do a far better job of covering the poverty, hunger, and lack of food security experienced year-round by tens of millions of Americans. (First in a series) 
Reporting on the real views of the 'armies of compassion'
ASK THIS | February 12, 2005
News organizations should directly ask the heads of private charities, including those that are faith-based, what they think are the solutions to hunger and poverty in America. (Second in a series)
Reporting on the link between hunger and obesity
ASK THIS | February 16, 2005
The press should be asking whether hunger and food insecurity may, paradoxically, be increasing obesity in America. (Third in a series)
Wages and their impact on hunger and poverty
ASK THIS | February 27, 2005
News organizations should investigate whether soaring executive pay and a stagnant minimum wage may be contributing to poverty in America. (Fifth in a series)
Reporting on the movement for 'assets development'
ASK THIS | March 01, 2005
The press should report on existing programs and new proposals to enable low-income Americans to earn and save their way out of poverty. (Last in a series)
Reporting on the forgotten issue of welfare reform
ASK THIS | February 18, 2005
News organizations should be asking if welfare reform is working at a time of increasing poverty and still-lagging employment. (Fourth in a series)
Have you heard: We’ve got new, sweeping welfare changes
ASK THIS | February 08, 2006
News organizations should ask serious questions about the changes in welfare policy that were quietly enacted as part of the Fiscal Year 2006 budget reconciliation bill. They are the most sweeping welfare changes in a decade.
'Dear Mr. Sulzberger, won't you reconsider?'
ASK THIS | September 06, 2008
A copy of a letter sent to the publisher of the New York Times, regarding the newspaper's decision to do away with a stand-alone Metro section.
Questions on poverty for McCain and Obama
ASK THIS | October 27, 2008
Joel Berg wants the press to focus on a subject we don’t hear much about. With so many bailouts taking place, do the candidates have anything in mind for the needy?
Remember 'Hunger in America?' It’s still here
SHOWCASE | December 07, 2008
There was a moment when the press took poverty seriously. And as advocate for the poor Joel Berg describes in his new book, that press attention, back in the 1960s, had a profound, positive impact on public policy. (A book excerpt.)
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If voters are to go into the midterm elections with any understanding at all, the press needs to get away from he-said, she-said reporting and look into the positions that candidates and the two parties are taking. Martin Lobel offers some vital questions. 
Our correspondent in Australia has ideas on how to improve things a little. But he’s not optimistic that anyone on Capitol Hill will be interested.
Columnist and author Steven Greenhut looks at the ongoing pension issue, including abuses of it, and deals with some of the key questions.
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Cleaning up in the wake of the 2010 Iowa State Fair will be daunting this year. In addition to the mess left by nearly 1 million visitors and thousands of farm animals, we have a continuing saga of news coverage that told of possible racial assaults and then, in Saturday Night Live fashion, appears [...] 
(Editor’s note: The incidents described here have become part of a developing story, as this Google link shows.)
The Des Moines Register’s reluctance to identify criminal suspects or victims by race has turned into an outright refusal to do so.
The closing night of the Iowa State Fair was marked by an observance not exactly on the [...]
I got this note from a friend and colleague a little while after Roger Clemens was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 19th:
“And meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA officials and others who lied to Congress in sworn testimony about Iraq go free. If we can ‘look forward, not backward’ on torture, perjury, [...]
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