Quotation of the Day…

Tweet

… is from page 29 of Thomas Sowell’s February 7th, 2000, column titled “Perennial Economic Fallacies,” as this column is reprinted in Sowell’s 2002 collection, Controversial Essays:

Despite desperate efforts of activists to keep “hunger in America” alive as an issue by manipulating numbers, actual examinations of flesh and blood people show no nutritional differences between people in different income brackets. In contrast to the gaunt and undernourished poor of other times and places, Americans in the lower income brackets today are slightly more likely to be overweight than is the rest of the population.