Ending hunger
Grace at the Table, by David Beckmann and Art Simon
Spencer Bachus, "a diehard Republican from Alabama's most diehard Republican district," in the words of the Washington Post, has been spearheading an effort in the U.S. House of Representatives to offer debt relief to more than 40 impoverished nations. In Mozambique, for example, where a fourth of all children die before their fifth birthday, government expenditures for debt repayment are four times more than for public health.