HEARTBREAKING!!!!
Posted on 05/06/2016 10:54:05 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
More than 8 million people in Britain live in households that struggle to put enough food on the table, with over half regularly going a whole day without eating, according to estimates of hunger in the UK.
One in 10 adults suffered moderate levels of food insecurity in 2014, placing the UK in the bottom half of European countries on hunger measures, below Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia and Malta.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Sorta my thoughts as well.
Get RID of those flimsy tables!
I just nearly DIE!!! when the vending machine at work is out of Diet Coke.
Oh??
How DARE you even SUGGEST that evidence be produced for claims!
How DARE you even SUGGEST what used to be Common Sense!
Stop using the leftist terms!!!
Nearly all schools provide Taxpayer Supplied! lunches to those who qualify—some provide Taxpayer Supplied! lunches to everyone.
Ya left out: Breakfast; too.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/child-nutrition-programs
My daughter is a Lunch Lady at a local public school.
The WASTE she sees daily is appalling!
There is a large safety net for most US people. I know because I have several relatives taking advantage of the system who are not needy but just don’t want to work.
The real problem with these phoney stats is that it’s difficult to determine who are the truly needy in the nation that needs help. I have mostly stopped giving to causes unless I can determine they really do help the truly poor.
Expecting parents to actually occasionally feed their own children is obviously an Eurocentric, heteronormative, racist, right-wing conservative idea. Yesterday I heard a public-service commercial where little-kid voices were begging to go to school in the summertime so they wouldn’t be hungry.
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