Today Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll joined more than 50 other mayors from across the country in the new nonpartisan Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger coalition, which taps the individual and collective leadership of mayors to take meaningful action to end childhood hunger in cities nationwide. Mayor Driscoll is the first Massachusetts mayor to join the coalition. The coalition believes that there is no excuse for children to go hungry in this country. Yet in the United States today, nearly 12 million children live in families considered food insecure.