Schedule

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Rising Food Prices: Budget Challenges

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
2 p.m.
210 Cannon House Office Building

Witnesses:

Josette Sheeran
Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
Jared Bernstein
Director of the Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute
Susan Berkowitz
Executive Director, South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Steve H. Hanke
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Additional witnesses may be announced.

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