American Hunger

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow traveled across the country over the course of a year—from Florida and Texas to Rhode Island and Tennessee—to examine the personal and political implications and repercussions of America's growing food stamp program.   Saslow shows us the extraordinary impact the arrival of food stamps has each month on a small town's struggling economy, the difficult choices