Posted on 08/18/2014 9:38:51 AM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
One in seven Americans – more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors – rely on food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families, according to a new study from Feeding America, a provider of charitable food assistance to low-income Americans. In what Feeding America says is “the largest and most comprehensive study of people seeking food assistance in the United States ever conducted,” more than 60,000 people confidentially answered questions about their personal circumstances.
The study represents findings from 200 Feeding America food banks, which annually provide more than 3 billion meals to people facing hunger through 58,000 food pantries and meal service programs that serve every community in the nation.
Key statistics from the report include:
-- Among food bank clients, 43 percent are white (1 in 10 white people in America), 26 percent are black (1 in 4 black people in America), and 20 percent are Latino (1 in 6 Latinos in America).
(Excerpt) Read more at wonkynewsnerd.com ...
And we know its racist to talk about how many millions more are getting food stamps in the era of Obama. We’re being conditioned to accept all of this as the new normal.
50 years of the Great Society and democRat policies..
oh .. and over 20 Trillion dollars later..
and this is what we get?
recycled tuna and noodles?
yummmy.
When I was in the Navy as a poor enlisted E-4, on more than one occasion I had to go to a food bank. I qualified for food stamps, too, but never applied for them. Food banks often provide food for people who are struggling financially but do not qualify for food stamps.
**— Among food bank clients, 43 percent are white (1 in 10 white people in America), 26 percent are black (1 in 4 black people in America), and 20 percent are Latino (1 in 6 Latinos in America).**
Interesting stats.
Foodbanks are taking the place of family and faith institutions. The family breakdown and retreat from faith based involvement is occuring. The progressives are winning that war.
When my aunt graduated high school back in the 1940's, she quickly found two good job possibilities. One was with the railroad, one was with a major steel company. Both jobs had benefits. And both paid well, the kind of money that allowed you to buy a nice house and car.
Does the same situation exist today? Of course not. A high school graduate today might have a choice of a couple of part-time jobs, both with little chance of advancement, and that's it.
Industry is gone from the United States. Our politicians (and shortsighted union leaders) let it slip away. That's a huge part of the problem.
“Rely” being the operative word here. I know people who use food bank services in addition to receiving all the other ‘free’ bennies. They take the food and resell it, or they use it to supplement the food stamp money they traded for cash.
Hard to say how many genuinely use it for the intended purpose.
There was a church that used to deliver boxes of basic food staples (bananas, potatoes, grains, rice, etc) to the HUD developments in town every Sunday afternoon. Left them on the doorsteps. Come Monday, most of the boxes were still there. Usually by trash day, the food had molded.
Those “poor little starving dears” simply weren’t interested in the food being given to them. But they sure had nice satellite dishes on the corner of every unit!
Let it slip away?
They pushed it away with mountains of regulations, piles of benefits and the heaviest corporate taxes in the known universe.
Sad to say, but when the SHTF they will surley starve (or be shot).
I was blown away about a year ago when I discovered alcoholics are receiving disability. I now know of two individuals who we’re able enough to work now destroyed because they get that “free” check and have basically wet brained themselves.
My Mom would have said "If ya can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em".
Today, it would be considered crass...and probably racist....but it still wouldn't mean it isn't true.
So you honestly believe that people go to food banks because it beats working?
Absolutely. And that will be very hard to reverse. I'll probably take some flak for saying this, but Romney was the country's last hope in that regard.
I say that because as time goes on, there will be more and more takers and less and less makers. In other words, no more GOP presidents.
I don't know where you're at but my church runs a food bank. I'm pretty sure we're a faith institution.
Valerie Jarrett (and her usual suspects) rubbing their hands -
“Clearly. This is a national crisis.” ......
In 80% of the cases, yes.
Every year at Christmas my family and I pack boxes of donated food at our church for the needy. Not a few of those "needy" show up to collect driving Cadillac Escalades and wearing conspicuous gold jewelry.
food stamps - the new norm
homosexuality - the new norm
soft porm on TV and advertising - the new norm
legal marajana - the new norm
abortion - baby killing - the new norm
illegal border crossing - the new norm
This place is starting to look like a gutter.
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