Posted on 01/31/2010 10:58:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A new survey indicates that nearly one in five US households could not afford to buy enough food at least once during the past year.
An anti-hunger group said the poll found 18.2 percent of households reported "food hardship" -- lacking money to buy enough food -- in 2009.
The figure reflects a higher percentage than the government's "food insecurity" rating of 14.6 percent of households, or 49 million people, in 2008.
"There are no hunger-free areas of America," Jim Weill of the Food Research and Action Center was quoted as saying by Reuters.
He added that he hoped President Barack Obama would exempt public nutrition programs from a proposed three-year freeze on domestic spending.
Obama has announced a goal to ending childhood hunger by 2015. A year ago, he backed a $1 billion-a-year increase in school lunch and other child nutrition programs.
If the poor who eat way too much, and I mean not just a little too much but waddling 50 inch waistline too much, shared with those who had too little, would that solve the problem?
If you starve in America it’s virtually sure to be your own fault.
So where are the numbers on how many of the Hungry are Over weight?
Carbohydrates are much cheaper than most proteins. Having said that, I recall a catchprase a comic used to use on BET Comicview: “Food stamps is money!”
As a "PizzaDriver I'm sure you have a feel for what that number is!
That said, I'm a little heavy and need a little snack before bed so see ya later!
“one in five US households could not afford to buy enough food at least once during the past year.”.............................
So hunger happened at least once for one in five???
Geez, I can’t buy food a couple of times a week if I can’t get to an ATM machine and get some cash!
I wonder if I’m in their target group???
Clearly Zer0 is going to have to come up with another food stamp stimulous program!
Are they factoring in college students?
Does eating Ramen noodles count as “hungry?” (it should).
This isn’t possible!
The Great and Glorious One was President for almost all of last year!
This sacrilege! Have the members of this group executed at once.
In my 56 years, I have never seen an American begging for food.
Food is almost as plentiful as air in America. Even after 45 years of food stamps, one in five goes hungry?
C’mon.
The feds want to regulate air with "Cap & Trade."
Food will be regulated by "Fat & Trade."
The figure reflects a higher percentage than the government's "food insecurity" rating of 14.6 percent of households, or 49 million people, in 2008.
Some of those polls are very, very loose in their definitions of "hunger". For example: worrying about having enough money for food, skipping an occassional meal to make you money last, or (my favorite) restricted food choices because of you budget - so if you eat rice and beans too many times in a month you are counted as hungry, even if you end up throwing away some of them every night because you have more than you can eat.
However, I wonder what their study would find if we rounded up the 30 million illegals in the US and deported them. All you have to do is visit the local food bank and see who is emptying the panties. Here in North Texas, it's a constant stream of illegals with their anchor babies. That's why I quit giving to any food drive. The food goes directly to illegals and helps sustain them until Juan McCain can ram through some type of amnesty bill so they can go on welfare.
Food banks are nothing more that resupply depots for the Army of La Reconquista.
Ok, I'm game.
(I know, you meant pantRies)
a 26 year old mother of six becomes pregnant again.
Her youngest sibling (one of seven) is about to turn 18 and her mother will have to move from her federally funded two-bedroom home to a one-bedroom. Solution? Mother (Grandmother) petitions to adopt daughter’s seventh baby! Paternity? Unknown!
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My brother and his wife are on kid number three. They both have an education and refuse to work. However, they are more than willing to take money from anyone.
She keeps having kids because others care for the first two. They watch TV and play video games. They are making no attempt to get full time jobs.
She just quit her part time job because she is pregnant again. Three kids my parents are paying and caring for.
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i’m a 19 year old college student. me and my boyfriend are looking to find help in paying for school and our place and car. we need help. the money he gets every other week isn’t cutting it. we have no children. is there any way we could get on welfare for the time we have left in college? need help
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I’m 18 with a six-week-old son. I’m not working because I’m trying to finish school. Well my boyfriend and his family are illegal and I live with them. Can I get on welfare?
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Can you get welfare if you’re a 17 year old mother? I have a son who is almost 1 years old. Me and his father are still together. We’re living with just his mom at the momment.
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i’m 19, and my parents are leaving to go to mexico and they don’t know when they are going to come back. i’m going to college. i do have a job but i don’t work every day — i just work like one time each two weeks. i don’t have anywhere to stay and i don’t get paid that much money to afford a place so i am trying to find a friend whom i can stay with but it doesn’t seem to be working because nobody will let me stay with them so i am asking the state for help.
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I am a 16 years old with a 1 year old son. can I be on welfare?
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I am 16 and will be 17 in December.I have an 11 month old old son and I live with his father, aunt, mother, great-grandmother and cousin. His mother recieves food stamps for me and my son as well as her son. Should I have to pay rent even though she receives foodstamps for me?
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i’m 20 years old and i’m six weeks pregnant. i live at home with an alcoholic mother, i have no job and i don’t go to school. my boyfriend lives with my mom and i and he has a full time job but doesn’t make enough money. i have already had a miscarriage and i do not want to go through what i went through last time. i need help asap my living situation is not good at all. please help.
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I am a 18 year old single mother in the state of kansas. My insurance did not cover my pregnancy and will not cover my child. we applied for healthwave and WIC but didn’t recieve and help. I am going to college soon and I cannot juggle a child, college and a job. my parents paid most of my expenses and i would like to recieve help so they can have more money for their things is it possible for me to be eligible for welfare?
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I’m 19 and currently living with my boyfriend. I don’t have a job and had to leave school, because I couldn’t get enough money to cover all the expenses. My aunt and uncle were granted custody of me at a young age and because of that, I was forced to declare independent status before I could go to school. I’m trying to get a job, but it’s not going well and my boyfriend and I are running out of money. Am I qualified?
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My mom works hard everyday and commutes a lot of hours. She cannot sign my loan papers to go to college and its really hard finding a job as im 18 with a GED. She wants me to get this welfare stuff because she has been paying taxes all her life, working since 14 and knows its a hard work environment. Funny thing is though... I have pride? Life is funny. So im stuck in that situation. Broke as hell also.
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Hi, im 16 years old, gonna be 17 in september. im a mother of a 17 month old and 4 months pregnant. I was wondering if i was eligible to get welfare for my son?, since i know i cant for myself until in 18 unless i get emancipated “Correct”??
P.S. please no negativity..thank you!
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my husband just left me and our twins (2 1/2 years). I’m German and in the process for getting my Green Card renewed. The twins are American citizens and I need to know if they can recieve welfare. As for now we are staying with my sister in law, b/c we can’t afford our own place.
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My boyfriend is in jail and I got laid off of work with 2 kids. Will i be eligible for welfare? Also since he signed the birth certificate does he have to pay the welfare people back when he gets out of jail?
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im 19 and i dont have my g.e.d or my diploma yet...im 2 months pregnant and im on wic and i will soon be getting my owm food stamps...i heard that in order to get cash assitance from welfare that i have to put the baby’s father on child support, is this true or can i still get it?
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i am 19 with a 3 year old son. we live with his father and his grandparents. i have a part time job but my boyfriend (son’s father) does not, but we still pay rent to my boyfriend’s parents. are the 3 of us eligible for welfare?
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I’m 20 years old, i have a baby 4 years old and my husband is working for $250.00 a week, our rent is $1,000.00 i’m on food stamps and medicare, i’m not working so i just wonder if i can go and apply for welfare?
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I am 17 years old. I live with my mother, stepfather, stepsister, and halfbrother. My best friend’s mother wants her to move out of their house and move in with me. She is on probation and we’re fine with her moving in. The only problem is we won’t have enough money to support another mouth to feed. Can we receive welfare? If not, do you have any suggestions that may help us?
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We’re a single-family-income household of 3 in Rhode Island. I work and make about $25000/yr after taxes. What is the most amount of money that you can make and still receive help? Can we get welfare?
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I am 18 yrs old, I am 4 1/2 months pregnant and a full time student. I’m due in September, so this fall I will be a mother as well as a full time college student, when I can return. I have medicaid, wic, and food stamps but this is not enough for a single young mother. Can I receive welfare, if so what steps do I need to take and when?
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I’m 18 years old and 8 months pregnant with my first child. I am living with my boyfriend and his mom and I have been for about a year now.
Me and my boyfriend are both employed at part time jobs. Lately there have been little bumps in my pregnancy like too much amniotic fluid causing me too look and feel larger and having more appointments than usual. It’s getting kind of hard to stand there being a cashier.
So I was just wondering if I left on unpaid maternity leave, do you think I would be accepted for welfare?
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i am 16 years old. i’m a single pregnant teen. my baby will be born in march (next month). i do not have a social security number. can i still receive welfare for my son?
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Hello, I am a single father and have 1 child. I collect food stamps from welfare. I did my income taxes and reported 7750 that I made as a self employed babysitting. Do I still qualify for this welfare or would I have a problem?
unadulterated bullshit in the purest form
Second Harvest...a lib-progressive outfit many ignorant conservatives support claimed this Christmas that one in four kids in Nashville were hungry every nite...
that is such crap...why do they lie like that?
no one in America knows wtf real hunger is
we are such a weak stupid and neurotic peoples...always beating ourselves up for being the product of successful folks who established this nation and west civilization in general
C’mon, Chet, that is not an American McDonald’s restaurant. The point is good, but the evidence is flawed.
I am reminded of the recent rescue of a little girl, trapped in the wreckage of a building in Haiti, for 15 days with no water or food, and I give Thanks for her life, and for what I have.
How many people ‘living in hunger’ in this country have cable TV? Satellite? Cell phones?
Take it from anyone who was poor 40 years ago: Poverty ain’t what it used to be.
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