Posted on 12/21/2006 4:32:51 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Disturbing statistics on the number of Hispanics who daily go hungry in America was released at a press conference on Wednesday by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). The national Hispanic civil rights group found that nearly one in five people lack nutritious food.
NCLR officials said in a press release that increasing federal nutrition assistance programs would help decrease the growing "food insecurity" faced by 19.6 percent of Latinos in America.
"Lack of access to resources is forcing far too many Latino families into choices no one should have to make, such as between having a roof over their heads or putting food on the table. A lack of affordable, nutritious food also has devastating health consequences, such as increasing hunger and obesity, affecting not only the Latino community but the well-being of our entire nation," Janet Murgua, NCLR President and CEO, said in the statement.
Hispanics are the largest minority in America.
BBC news reported on Thursday that one of the study's authors, Jennifer Ng'andu, said that when it came to issues of hunger and malnutrition in the U.S. that the Latino community was "practically invisible."
According to the study, although lack of food is more of a problem for Hispanics than for whites in America, it is still African Americans who are most likely to go hungry every day.
The study found that the number of Hispanics going hungry was three percent higher than for non-Hispanic whites and eight percent lower than for non-Hispanic blacks, BBC reported.
The amount of Hispanics who receive federal assistance is mind boggling, the amount of money they receive is mind boggling. The out right blatant cheating is mind boggling.
"food insecurity" must mean someone who can't eat more than three burritos at one sitting.
Priceless.
A little different angle on the hungry in America shtick this time, but it will continue to be spewed until a democrat is in the WH. Then everything will be good with the world again.
Now he was a Ferrari fan, although I doubt that he had ever seen one firsthand, and he once stated that he was a huge supporter of EU/Danish style social systems because, in his words. "you may not get more than others, but the state ensures that you cannot fail."
Oh... When I, and others, informed him how scary that idea is to us, he stated, well,"its better than in the US where people are lying dead in the streets!"
He really believed this tripe, as do most other EU types, along with most of the rest of the world.
I invited him to travel here and stay at my house and drive my car. - We would drive to every nook and cranny that he pleased, and I would pay him a one thousand dollar bounty for every dead body that we saw.
Interestingly, this story does have a good ending.
After a good amount of time passed, he became an activist for a non EU type, pro US democracy, much to the dismay of his friends and family.
The Media itself is a thought crime.
Come now, LaRaza, you and your compadres have been telling us for years that they come here to feed their families. Now you tell us they're here starving.
Well, WHICH IS IT?
Maybe if they were working in the fields "doing that work that American's won't do" they would have more food or they could just go back to their home countries. I'm sure they would be treated better there.
More crap statistics.
I HOPE enough people read this post because I did a fair amount of research into this. My aim was to find out what "food insecurity" means. With language, the devil is in the details. You want to know what I found out??
The difference between a food secure and a hungry/food insecure family is a spending difference of $8/wk per person. A whole $8. Here is the data:
Food secure: $38.57
Food insecure $27.50
Without hunger $26.67
With hunger $30.00
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I don't wish to trivialize real problems of poverty in society. However, we need to be very careful before we start slinging terms around and impugning America for no good reason. When people irresponsibly imply that 20% of Hispanics don't have enough food to eat, they better have the facts to back it up. And they don't. Spending per week is roughly the same between food insecure and food secure people. And I don't think this is a La Raza issue; its the federal government and the Left that coin these misleading phrases that lead Americans and those abroad to believe that America is ignoring its poor.
By all means, let's address poverty. But using misleading terminology to overdramatize the problem serves non one. Except the political agenda of the Left.
If you shoot straight with the American people, they will respond with charity and compassion as they always have. If you try to manipulate them with hollow terms and juiced statistics, they will resent anti-poverty efforts and shun them. Intellectual honesty matters - I just hope, for the sake of the poor, the Left learns this lesson.
One question: The ones who are hungry ... are they legal?
Shakira looks absolutely famished.
Then again, this is freaking La Raza, who are about as believable as a Clinton.
That is because except in the few cases involving the elderly or abused children nobody is starving.
They have defined it down to the point that "Food insecure" (you notice it isn't even "hungry" any more) means simply that you don't have what you would like to eat. Not that you don't have anything to eat.
If planned on having shrimp but the rent was due so you had mac and cheese you are "Food insecure".
I live in LA, too, and can vouch for the truth of your statement.
The substandard and cheap quality of foods and food with empty caloric and nutritional value consumed are the main culprits. Many of the poor, indigent and illegal population usually choose to eat the cheap, low quality preservative-sodium ridden foods.....hence the malnutrition issue rearing its ugly head....which will then, parlay into a plethora of health issues over time.....resulting in putting these people on loads of pharmaceutical drugs to help them with all their emerging problems....which then, burdens the Medicare/caid system.....and on and on......
Maybe Rove knows what their budget is, he spoke there.
...will you adopt me?
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