is joel berg, the ceo of hunger free america. welcome to the program. joel: good morning.k you for joining us. can you start by telling us about your organization, the mission, and who you work with? joel: hunger free america is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization that works to enact the programs and policies necessary not just to ameliorate the problem but to end hunger in america once and for all. our motto is ending hunger lifts us all because ending hunger would lift us up spiritually, ethically as a nation, but also would dramatically help our economy because hungry workers are more economically productive. hungry students do less well in school. i'm sorry, less hungry workers, more nourished workers are more economically productive. nourished students do better in school. you must be fueled. to be well read, you need to be well fed. we run the national hunger hotline and americans can call us at 1-866-3-hungry to get help to be connected with a private or government source of food. we help people access govern assistance programs like snap, wic, and school

is joel berg, the ceo of hunger free america. welcome to the program. joel: good morning.for joining us. can you start by telling us about your organization, the mission, and who you work with? joel: hunger free america is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization that works to enact the programs and policies necessary not just to ameliorate the problem but to end hunger in america once and for all. our motto is ending hunger lifts us all because ending hunger would lift us up spiritually, ethically as a nation, but also would dramatically help our economy because hungry workers are more economically productive. hungry students do less well in school. i'm sorry, less hungry workers, more nourished workers are more economically productive. nourished students do better in school. you must be fueled. to be well read, you need to be well fed. we run the national hunger hotline and americans can call us at 1-866-3-hungry to get help to be connected with a private or government source of food. we help people access govern assistance programs like snap, wic, and school meals

then hunger free america ceo joel berg joins us to discuss his organization's annual survey on hungern the u.s., and the factors behind the increase in food and security. washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. ♪ announcer: sunday night on q & a , a pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the wall street journal and former speechwriter for president reagan talks about her book. she also discusses her time working in the white house and her career in radio after graduating from college. >> walter cronkite was the anchor of the cbs news. he had a radio show. every day he did a radio commentary. it was written by a wonderful writer. when dale was off on vacation, i became one of the people who filled in for him. once while i was filling in for dale, cronkite himself took vacation, and this young guy named dan rather came in. dan rather became the anchor at cbs and i became the daily radio writer of his commentary, which was a fabulous job like doing a call them every day. announcer: peggy noonan with her