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).
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There is a food bank in my part of town located in the basement of a church. I try not to drive by there on distribution day because of all the traffic and chaos. You don’t have to watch for very long to see that at least half of these people really don’t need the help. Pulling up to load it in expensive SUV’s and such.
I suppose we have to tolerate all the grifters to ensure that those truly needy don’t starve.
Why 80%? Sure it isn't 85% or 90%?
Well then by all mean you and your family and your church should stop doing the program completely.
Reminds me of pigeons in the park. Keep throwing out free food and more keep showing up.
It’s Monday morning. I pass by a food bank on the way to my shop. Long long lines of people getting free stuff. But at least it’s a private charity.
To do what? Were you feeding a family? When I was in the Navy, three squares a day were always served up on the messdecks.
And while I really don't want to get into the specifics of your particular situation, but if you were trying to feed a family, what made you think you could do that on E-4 pay?
Wife and 3 kids.
Wife and 3 kids. Family came before and during my Navy years. And FU for judging me.
For most of human history each successive generation placed higher requirements on the potential employee, with those who made the cut able to be better off than all the generations before them, and those who could not relegated to poverty. During your aunt's generation, being a high school graduate was enough. Now it is not.
In the middle ages, being able to read and right alone was enough to guarantee one a position of nobility and wealth; do you believe we can go back there? The human race and civilization moves forward, those who can't keep up will fall away; you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Another one of Obama’s plans for changing this nation succeeding.
I don’t think Romney was any hope. He’s far too left to want to turn anything around. Then he had the gall to pretend to be “severely conservative” while running. He was far too dishonest.
So faith based food banks are the majority?
Most of the ones I know of are.
Most in NY are run non-profits helped by local governments.
Exactly.
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