US Government Ignores Hunger In America
This is from a post at BlueBloggin.
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger says the number of people who use food pantries and soup kitchens in the city increased by 20% in 2007. … food distribution points are struggling to meet demand. Increased poverty as well as government cutbacks in food aid effect more and more indigents.
No Thanksgiving turkey
“This annual survey of food pantries and soup kitchens shows that more working families, children, and seniors are being forced to seek emergency food,” Joel Berg, the coalition’s executive director, said in a statement.
“Given that hunger continued to increase in the city, even when the economy was still strong last year, it is no wonder that now, when the economy is weakening, lines at pantries and kitchens are getting even worse.”
Some food outlets said their federal supplies of food had been cut by as much as three-quarters.
According to a survey, 59% of New York’s food programmes, up from 48% last year, said they did not have enough resources to meet demand.
The US Department of Agriculture says 12.6 million households nationwide, or more than 30 million people – 10% of the population – did not have enough food at some point in 2006.
Comments
Comment from Gloria
Time: March 25, 2009, 5:53 pm
This was a discussion topic at another political site that I ran into recently. They talked about the problem of the amount of homeless people here in the states. It’s called 99problems.org I believe and they also have a black planet page at blackplanet.com/99ProblemsDotorg. It’s a pretty cool site where people can discuss about problems in their communities. But in this case, it is our problem as a country.
Comment from Catherine Morgan
Time: November 23, 2007, 2:07 pm
I will never understand this kind of thing…We are living in the richest country in the world, and people here are still going hungry.