What are the titles and subject matter of any books that have been banned?
Further, I believe it is parents that are clamoring for the books being removed, not "banned", removed from school libraries and their elected representatives are, as is intended, acting on their behalf.
That's representative democracy at work.
You are both right about one thing, we should be applying more energy to remedying the unaffordability of food in America. It is only going to get worse. At the very least you have to accept that prices ain't ever gonna go down. Right now is a good as it gets. Serious hunger, starvation does things to a person....physically, mentally, and spiritually. The average coddled American will not be able to cope.