Report: Three Million New Yorkers Struggle To Put Food On The Table

Source: NY1 News

A New York City Food Bank report, released Tuesday to mark National Hunger Awareness Day, says more than a third of city residents have trouble affording food for their families.

The survey found about three million New Yorkers are worried about putting food on the table, up nearly 50 percent from just three years ago.

A growing number of them are middle income families that earn between $25,000 and $75,000 a year.

The study also found that 1.7 New Yorkers have no savings and wouldn't be able to afford food if they lost their jobs.



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Well, did the democratic candidates talk about this reality?

we have a middle class in name only.

Gone are the days when we could live at the same standard as our parents.

Our pride does not allow us to acknowledge that we now belong to what used to be the lower class.

I lived far better than my parents and my kids are living far better than I did.

Not everone had the middle class background that you did.

Had servants.

Now I'm merely middle class...

growing up,and there were lots of us.

If it's like this in NYC, wonder what the rest of the country is like???:wow: :kick:

as concerns our kids going to bed hungry. It's also the most republican state in the nation.

the MSM has special news reports: Americans are fat, fat, obese.

i don't watch them, since i'm bones and skin mostly, but makes me wonder ... what do they NOT want to talk about?

dp

There's an old saying in our family - Sleep is Food and Food is Sleep - and if you're the family breadwinner working two/three jobs with very little sleep, no time to really exercise, and little at the end to show for it, you're going to eat high carb/high calorie food to keep going. And with stress, the body metabolism sloooows down to store energy, so - you can easily get fat. Even though, technically, you may be eating less.

Healthy food costs money; fresh fruits, meats and veggies require almost daily shopping even with a refrigerator or freezer available. The poor(er) and working "middle class" can't usually afford to keep both a fridge and a freezer stocked with "fresh" foods bought on their "just after payday" (if they're lucky) trips to places like Costco or local produce stores and butchers, so when they go food shopping, they get easy to make and storeable (canned, boxed, and heavily preserved)foods.

The poor tend to be either hefty verging on obese or very small and thin. More obese Americans indicate to me that there's more poor(er) Americans that don't have the time or resources to take care of themselves.

Haele

about how and what the poor eat and truly feel can be a major contributor to their being obese.

Although I don't recall how the topic came up, one day a good friend told me that most of those she knew who were living on food stamps were overweight so they must be okay and get enough to eat. I asked her what was the cheapest food to buy, she said pasta and rice... I said and what happens when a person eats a LOT of pasta and rice and is it healthy for them? It was fun to see the light go on. (She was on a low carb diet at the time.) I then asked her if she thought some folks on welfare might be upset and stressed by having to accept the help (knowing we had recently discussed a study on stress and weight gain)... again... the light went on... and she said she had never thought of it that way. She's not a stupid or uncaring person either.. she has a heart as big as all outdoors but, like so many others, she believed the neo-Con and corp media spin.

Over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of people have moved from New York City to eastern PA. The vast majority of the net migration was from the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, which used to be affordable but which have seen big increases in housing prices. Most are moving to the Lehigh Valley, the Poconos and small cities in eastern PA, including large numbers of minorities.

The only reason that New York City has not seen a decline in population is because so many new immigrants have come into New York. Northern Queens now has the largest Asian community in North America - something like a million people.

damn. That's alot of people worried about the basics-- food, shelter, etc.

Welcome to Bush*'s 'Murica. The "ownership society": you're on your own.

He needs these poor kids for his corporate wealth.

except the rich can afford to live in NYC. Housing costs are outrageous. I heard not too long ago that once you take away real estate equity, NYC doesn't even crack the top ten cities for number of millionaires. Even the NYC wealthy have too much of their money tied up in housing.

I know that in Northern NY the percent of residents that receive food stamps is very high. My daughter mentioned an article in the local paper that said in her county (Franklin) it had increased up to 70%. :wow: I'll have to ask her which paper and when she saw it... I can't find it online but not all the papers up here are available on the web yet.

the price to transport that food to the stores will go up and as a result so will the price of food.

This is only the coming attractions folks.