-Laelth

... suffer from food insecurity. http://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/home_top-news/2576149/Summer-program-served-55000-meals-to-children

But hey, let's leave the obscenity of starving children to be solved by "faith-based initiatives" (I know these generous folks are doing the best they can) and save our tax dollars for more guns and jets and war!

For some children, the free meals they get at school are the ONLY meals they get, which means in the summer the kids are left to starve. In Scioto County they have a backpack program which helps to feed hungry children in summer.

of a Charles Dickens novel.

As much as food stamps and poverty relate to nutritional concerns for millions and millions,
other than those wealthy enough to walk into upscale stores and pay top dollar for "organic"
labeled food,
EVERYONE else is deeply affected by the issues that really are not mentioned in normal discourse.
Here is what the real problem is- Chains like Save Mart were finally permitted to buy out Albertson's
in our area several years ago. This ambitious attempt leading into a severely depressed economy led
to the closing of many stores, including other chains that opened stores at intersections facing each
other, 3 or more in one spot, while never thinking to do business on the poor side of town.
So major percentages of the population had no large grocery stores within several miles.
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch Dressing section, overgrown retail overlords like Wal-Mart and Target moved into
strong positions of distribution, impacting growers, telling them what the price for their produce would be.
This sort of manipulation and those kinds of consolidations were probably illegal in past decades, and certainly
were not permitted in the past.
The price of products in these stores are higher due to reduced competition, enhanced greed and absent oversight.
Buying locally and as directly as you can will be the only effective option/resort.
Look for that to become more difficult as these giants of commerce flex their mu$cle$.