A rich discussion of the major systemic issues creating poverty and hunger--and what organizations in central Illinois can and should be doing to address them. With audience questions. Hosted by Dave Dickey of Illinois Public Media with Steve Anderson, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Donna Camp, Director, Wesley Evening Food Pantry; Senator Mike Frerichs, IL General Assembly, District 52 (Champaign and Vermilion Counties); Jennifer Hrycyna, Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Lyn Jones, CEO, United Way of Champaign County; Kate Maehr, President of the Board, Feeding Illinois and Executive Director, Greater Chicago Food Depository;Amy Terpstra, Senior Research Analyst, Social IMPACT Research Center (formerly Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty). The 2009 Hunger Symposium was sponsored by the Eastern Illinois Food Bank.