Economic Report: One in Twenty Latinos In U.S. Go Hungry

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Economic Report: One in Twenty Latinos In U.S. Go Hungry - 12/21/06

Economic Report:

By Jesse Russell

One in 20 Latinos in the United States goes hungry. That’s the finding of a newly released study from the National Council of La Raza. The organization suggests that the primary reasons are poverty, a lack of awareness about state and federal entitlements, as well as language and cultural barriers. The rate of “food insecurity” for Hispanics is nearly as high as it is for blacks.

But Mr. W er Scrooge, what about the poor? What about the destitute?

but how many Americans go hungry every day?

My heart goes out for anyone who is suffering and needs help, regardless of external qualifications.

Sorry, I think I misunderstood. :)

I often wonder how to compare this to hunger in other countries.

Hunger Persists in the U.S.
Thirty-three million people including 13 million children live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents one in ten households in the United States.(1)

3.1 percent of U.S. households experience hunger: they frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. Nearly 8.5 million people, including 2.9 million children, live in these homes. (1)

7.3 percent of U.S. households are at risk of hunger: they have lower quality diets or must resort to seeking emergency food because they cannot always afford the food they need. 24.7 million people, including 9.9 million children, live in these homes. (1)
http://www.gardenwriters.org/Par/Hunger.html

29% percent of children under 12 in the United States live in families that must cope with hunger or the risk of hunger during some part of one or more months a year.
http://www.uwcnm.org/information/hunger.htm

Hunger In America: Hard Facts

- More than one-third (38%) of families leaving welfare reported that they ran out of food and did not have money for more. (Urban Institute - 2001)

- Approximately 7 million different people receive assistance in any given week (America's Second Harvest - 2001)

- 96,000,000,000 pounds of food is thrown away each year by the Food Service Industry. (Source: FoodChain )

- 33.6 million people including almost 13 million children live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents approximately one in ten households in the United States (10.7 percent). http://www.fhfh.org/hunger.html

...Over 9 million children are estimated to be served by the America's Second Harvest Network, over 2 million of which are ages 5 and under, representing nearly 13% of all children under age 18 in the United States and over 72% of all children in poverty.

According to the USDA, an estimated 12.4 million children lived in food insecure (low food security and very low food security) households in 2005.
http://www.secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/child_hunger_facts.html

November 22, 2005 · More than 13 million families in 2004 were unable at times to buy the food they needed, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Finances are so strained for 5 million of those families that one or more members goes hungry as a result. ...the government also classifies 38 million people as "food insecure," which means at some point in the previous year they had difficulty finding the money to buy food.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5021812

...more than 25 million people, or about 9 percent of all Americans, receive food assistance on an emergency basis. This growing army of poor and hungry includes nearly 9 million children and 3 million seniors The overall number of those seeking help at food banks and soup lines has swelled by 8 percent since 2001, and 18 percent since 1997....the US Department of Agriculture has estimated that in 2004, 38.2 million Americans, including 13.9 million children, faced hunger or a lack of sufficient food.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/hung-m09.shtml

...More than 38 million Americans go hungry, including nearly 14 million children...Hunger in American households has risen by 43 percent over the last five years, according to an analysis of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data released today.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=32800

if one of nineteen of any group is going hungry maybe the other nineteen could feed them?

maybe the people who are spending billions of dollars on their own greed and egos celebrating a certain religious based holiday
could feed them?

I feed a select group of hungry latinos every working day.

it is not that difficult a task.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

I do not personally know anyone well enough who is
receiving govt food, to ask them how much they get.

However I heard the other day that a couple (2 people
both under 60 years age) gets $285/month. Both are
currently unemployed.

My family has 2 adults and 2 tenagers and we spend
aprox $600/month on food, and we eat very well.