Monday, November 16, 2009
"There are children starving in India"
Or Africa, whichever area your parents were aware of, they used that statement to get you to eat your dinner. Soon parents in India or Africa may be telling their kids, "There are children starving in the US".
The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a government report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.As these numbers go up, the number of people who can help goes down. Thank God for Wall St bonuses, we will be spared the sight of beggers in front of Goldmine Sachs.
In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children -- more than one in five across the United States -- were living in households in which food at times ran short, up from slightly more than 12 million children the year before. And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.
Among people of of all ages, nearly 15 percent last year did not consistently have adequate food, compared with about 11 percent in 2007, the greatest deterioration in access to food during a single year in the history of the report...
...Last year, people in 4.8 million households used private food pantries, compared to 3.9 million in 2007, while people in about 625,000 households resorted to soup kitchens, nearly 90,000 more than the year before.
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