From the worldhunger.org

 

Hunger in the United States

Six  years after the onset of the financial and economic crisis, hunger remains high in the United States. The financial and economic crisis that erupted in 2008 caused a significant increase in hunger in the United States. This high level of hunger diminished somewhat  in 2013, according to the latest government report (with the most recent statistics) released in September 2015 (Coleman-Jensen 2015a).

• In 2013, 14.3 percent of households (17.5 million households, approximately one in seven), were food insecure (Coleman-Jensen 2014b, p. 1).  This is down slightly from 14.9 percent food insecure in 2008 and 2009  which was  the highest number recorded since these statistics have been kept (Coleman-Jensen 2014b, p.1 ).
  
• In 2013, 5.6 percent of U.S. households (6.8 million households) had very low food security. In this more severe range of food insecurity, the food intake of some household members was reduced and normal eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year due to limited resources (Coleman-Jensen 2014b, p.1) .
  
• Children were food insecure at times during the year in 9.9 percent of households with children. These 3.8 million households were unable at times during the year to provide adequate, nutritious food for their children  While children are usually shielded by their parents, who go hungry themselves, from the disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake that characterize very low food security, both children and adults experienced instances of very low food security in 0.9 percent of households with children (360,000 households) in 2013 (Coleman-Jensen 2014b, p. 2).
  
• The median [a type of average] food-secure household spent 30 percent more on food than the median food-insecure household of the same size and household composition including food purchased with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (formerly the Food Stamp Program) (Coleman-Jensen 2014b, p. 2).
  
• Rates of food insecurity were substantially higher than the national average for households with incomes near or below the Federal poverty line, households with children headed by single women or single men, and Black and Hispanic households (Coleman-Jensen 2014b, p. 2).
  
• Background: The United States changed the name of its definitions in 2006 that eliminated references to hunger, keeping various categories of food insecurity.  This did not represent a change in what was measured.  Very low food insecurity (described as food insecurity with hunger prior to 2006) means that, at times during the year, the food intake of household members was reduced and their normal eating patterns were disrupted because the household lacked money and other resources for food. This means that people were hungry (in the sense of "the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food" [Oxford English Dictionary 1971] for days each year.
  

 

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Why are we so willing to send money, food, troops overseas or to accept MILLIONS of people from other countries into our own and provide them everything while not helping our own Naturalized citizens, especially our fighting men & women Veterans?


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Nothing is sader than hearing from a child in a public school about how excited he is to receive used worn sneakers as he is being picked up from a homeless shelter on the bus.  It happens all over america, and we can end it in one day if enough people contributed finacially and with their time in programs to help our countries future... the USA Children.

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