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To: 68skylark
A huge percentage of these people are immigrants, especially illegal immigrants. What's more, the large influx of surplus labor suppresses the wages of the working class, thus spreading poverty. This influx, combined with misguided housing laws, also drive up the housing costs of the native poor by driving them out of their traditional areas. The left causes a problem and then uses the problems they cause to glean more power.
58 posted on 11/22/2004 10:00:24 AM PST by jordan8
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To: jordan8

Further reading of the document reveals that only .07% of those with children were hungry:
"Prevalences of Food Insecurity
and Hunger—National
Conditions and Trends
Eighty-nine percent of U.S. households were food
secure throughout the entire year 2002 (fig. 1). “Food
secure” means that all household members had access
at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.5
The remaining 12.1 million U.S. households (11.1 percent
of all households) were food insecure at some
time during the year. That is, they were uncertain of
having, or unable to acquire, enough food for all
household members because they had insufficient
money and other resources for food. About two-thirds
of food-insecure households avoided hunger, in many
cases by relying on a few basic foods and reducing
variety in their diets. But 3.8 million households (3.5
percent of all U.S. households) were food insecure to
the extent that one or more household members were
hungry, at least some time during the year, because
they couldn’t afford enough food.
In most households, children were protected from substantial
reductions in food intake and ensuing hunger.
However, in some 265,000 households (0.7 percent of
households with children), food insecurity was sufficiently
severe that 1 or more children in each household
were also hungry on 1 or more days during the
year because the household lacked money for enough
food."


59 posted on 11/22/2004 10:26:18 AM PST by Razorism (What is food poverty?)
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