Posted on 11/22/2007 5:26:52 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
As the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving, one in six New Yorkers, some 1.3 million people, don't have enough to eat, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger said.
The number of people lining up for food in soup kitchens "soared" this year, and federal aid cuts have led to declining food stocks and increased rationing, the group said.
The city spends $2.65 billion a year on health care, lost productivity and other costs related to food insecurity, the Manhattan-based group that campaigns against hunger said in a report.
"When the economy gets a cold, people in poverty get pneumonia," the coalition's Executive Director Joel Berg said in the report. New York City Human Resources Administration Commissioner Robert Doar has pledged increased funding of $1 million for the city's soup kitchens and food pantries.
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May I be the first to call bullshit on this whining leftist propaganda??
If I listened to all of these cries of alarm, I'd believe I was the only person in America with a place to live, food to eat, and not beating my spouse.
I would love to ask Hillary about this. What has she done to fight hunger in New York????? does she believe the problem is this bad??? does she blame it on Bush?????????
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
She voted for the war. All that money could have been spent to feed the hungry children of NY /s
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If you can’t afford crack and food you should just buy food.
THis is up there with “one in three of your neighbors was helped by the United Way THIS YEAR” bullpuckey being spread right now in a funding drive.
What a load of tripe.
You have to remember that, according to Hillary low-income in New York includes those making $80,000. So, with these new “low-income families” joining those already on food stamps, you could certainly have a huge increase in participation.
Also, you have to include those who are neither low-income nor hungry who will gladly stand in line at a soup kitchen just because the food is free.
I thought the problem was obesity.
If one in five are hungry then 90% of those “hungry” are on diets. I know I get hungry as anything when I diet.
Feed the obese to the starving.
I keep telling them, but do they listen?
Desperation numbers.
It is George Bush’s failed policies or we have to tax the rich. There are eager throngs of sheeple out there waiting to be spoon fed this socialist propaganda.
See, there's no hunger upstate, thanks to King Eliot. There's only hunger in NYC, where the eeeeeeevel man WHO SAID HE WAS A REPUBLICAN has been mayor for a few years.
This crap is so stupid, I think it cost me an IQ point just reading the article.
According to the Coalition’s estimate based on federal data for 2006 at the state level, 1.3 million New Yorkers – one in six City residents – still live in households which are food insecure, meaning they cannot afford an adequate and consistent supply of food.
Based not on their liberalism, but the level of competence with which this survey was designed, executed, and interpreted, I would not trust ANY estimate offered by these folks. That aside, the estimate refers to an "adequate supply of food." I am pretty sure that means a nutritionally adequate supply. So if you can afford a diet that doesn't leave you hungry but is short of some bureaucratic nutritional guideline, voila! You are food insecure--proof that the gummint needs to throw another billion at this problem.
Let us give thanks that FReepers are not stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.
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