The State - News from Aug. 16, 1987
A report issued by the state Senate Office of Research said that at least 1.5 million Californians do not have enough money to feed themselves and their children and must accept donations from struggling charitable and governmental organizations. The report offered both short- and long-term actions, ranging from establishment of a food stamp outreach program to monitoring counties that improperly deny food stamps to homeless people, to ease what it called the “debilitating and demoralizing” hunger epidemic.
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