Look around tomorrow after reading these stats and see if you are living in a society without hunger...
One of the most disturbing and extraordinary aspects of life in this very wealthy country is the persistence of hunger. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2007:
36.2 million people lived in households considered to be food insecure.
Of these 36.2 million, 23.8 million are adults (10.6 percent of all adults) and 12.4 million are children (16.9 percent of all children).
The number of people in the worst-off households increased to 11.9 from 10.8 in 2005. This increase in the number of people in the worst-off category is consistent with other studies and the Census Bureau poverty data, which show worsening conditions for the poorest Americans.
Black (22.2 percent) and Hispanic (20.1 percent) households experienced food insecurity at far higher rates than the national average.
The ten states with the highest food insecurity rates in 2007 were Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Maine, South Carolina, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.
We know that these have probably doubled in this economy. We can not ignore this anymore. Please help the hungry. Help one human today!
Friday, September 25, 2009
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They have forgot Florida!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe can go any where in the world our goverment churches helps every other country but they never help us yet our own countrycares more about the other countrys yet seems to over look thre own back yard--hatie has gotten over25 million dollers from our goverment our tax dollars yet we starve we are in depresion where that money come from then 20,000 troops tax dollars agian ow thats food for thought
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