The U.S. Conference of Mayors - Sodexho, Inc. Release The 2006 Hunger and Homelessness Survey

Washington , D.C. - As emerging priorities unfold under new Congressional leadership, The U.S. Conference of Mayors ( USCM) and Sodexho, Inc. will release results of the 2006 Hunger and Homelessness Survey at a Press Conference on Thursday, December 14 at 10:30 am at the Conference of Mayors headquarters. For the past 20 years, The U.S. Conference of Mayors has reported on the shortage of emergency services - food, shelter, medical care, income assistance and energy assistance - in our nation's cities. For the fourth year, Sodexho, Inc. joins the Conference of Mayors in bringing national attention to the factors that impact hunger and homelessness in metropolitan centers in the United States. This year, the survey takes into particular consideration the impact of hunger and homelessness on children in America's cities.

Who: The United States Conference of Mayors & Sodexho, Inc.:

• Trenton (NJ) Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, USCM President
• Des Moines (IA) Mayor T.M. Franklin Cownie, Co-Chair of the USCM Hunger and Homeless Taskforce
• Charleston (SC) Mayor Joseph P. Riley, USCM Past President
• Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Co-Chair of the Congressional Hunger Caucus
• Rod Bond, President of Sodexho, Inc. School Services Division
• Tom Cochran, Executive Director, USCM

What: PRESS CONFERENCE to release results of the 2006 Hunger and Homelessness Survey

When: Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 10:30 am

Where: The U.S. Conference of Mayors Headquarters
1620 I Street, N.W.
4th Floor Conference Room
Washington, D.C. 20006

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,139 such cities in the country today, each represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the Mayor.

Sodexho, Inc. (www.SodexhoUSA.com ) is the leading provider of integrated food and facilities management in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with $6.7 billion in annual revenue and 125,000+ employees. Sodexho offers innovative outsourcing solutions in food service, housekeeping, groundskeeping, plant operations and maintenance, asset management, and laundry services to more than 6,000corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses,  government  and remote sites throughout North America. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., Sodexho proudly serves as the official food service provider for the U.S. Marine Corps.