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Experiencing hunger in Las Vegas: $3.39 a day buys little food, lots of lessons

January 30, 2012
J. Patrick Coolican

Try eating on $3.39 a day.

Some Las Vegans learned last week that it's doable but difficult. Luckily for them it was just a one-week experiment, whereas for hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, it's an ongoing challenge.

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Hunger Facts

Imagine your child’s classroom: thirty children, and fifteen of them are hungry.

55% of children in the Clark County School District are enrolled in free and reduced-price meal programs based on their family income. That’s over 170,000 kids facing hunger at home and coming to school unprepared to learn.

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