approximately of all children in the United States were living below the poverty line in 2010. In the UK and in France that figure is well under 10 percent. #2 According to the U.S. Census, the number of children living in poverty has gone up in just the past 2 years. #3 Today, American children is on food stamps. #4 It is being projected that of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18. #5 It is estimated that up to children may currently be homeless in the United States. #6 are currently on food stamps. That is an all-time record and that number is 18 million higher than it was back at the beginning of 2007. #7 of the 44 million Americans that are now on food stamps are children. #8 According to Feeding America’s 2010 hunger study, are now being served by food pantries and soup kitchens. #9 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased since 2006. #10 According to Feeding America,lived in “food insecure households” during 2009. #11 Even with tens of millions of Americans on food stamps there are still large numbers of Americans that go hungry each night. , 15% of all U.S. households experienced a shortage of food at some point during 2009. #12 U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry. #13 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled government anti-poverty program. #14 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own of all the wealth in the United States. Statistically, there are more children in poor households than in wealthy ones. #15 Child hunger is a major problem all over the world. Approximately around the world go to bed hungry each night. #16 A lack of food among pregnant women in developing countries results being born with a low birth weight. #17 of all children in developing countries are considered to be underweight or have had their growth stunted as a result of malnutrition. #18 More than 3 billion people, closeto half the world’s population, . #19 Somewhere in the world someone starves to death , and 75 percent of those are children under the age of five. #20 around the world died before they reached their fifth birthday during 2008. Approximately a third of all of those deaths were attributed to hunger and malnutrition. Most Americans have traditionally thought of “hunger” as something that happens over in Africa or Asia, but that is simply not the case anymore. There are tens of millions of Americans that would be going without enough food if it weren’t for the food stamp program, school meal programs, food pantries, soup kitchens and the kindness of religious organizations. Sadly, as the price of food continues to rise there are tens of millions more Americans that are on fixed incomes or on limited incomes that are going to be facing food insecurity. The average American now spends of his or her income on food and gas. That is going to rise even higher thanks to all of the new moneythat the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have pumped into the financial system. Inflation is a hidden tax that is very cruel. It hits those with limited resources the hardest. What are most American families going to do someday when a loaf of bread is 10 dollars and a gallon of milk is 20 dollars? And it is not just the price of food that is going up. , the average American family of four that is covered by health insurance had an average of $19,393 in health care costs last year. Many Americans (even if they have insurance) are simply avoiding doctors and avoiding hospitals altogether because they can no longer afford them. Our whole system is breaking down. As the economy crumbles, frustration and anger are rising. As I have written about previously, the number of Americans that have “” seems to be increasing. The following are a couple more examples of this phenomenon…. *When things start falling apart, people start going crazy. Just recently, one man while riding a NewYork city subway. He hurled racial and ethnic slurs at the people around him and physically harassed a couple of people before a cop was able to wrestle him to the ground. *Another example of this happened in California just a few days ago. An elderly woman pulled out a gun and outside of a Kohl’s department store in broad daylight on Mother’s Day. When old women start shoving guns in our faces and demanding our money that should be a sign to all of us that things really are starting to fall to pieces. Things are starting to get crazy but this is just the beginning. Someday when the global economy is in shambles and there is a massive global food crisis, what do you think Americans are going to do when they have been without food for 3 or 4 days and their families are crying out for something to eat? Don’t think that it won’t happen. The era of endless amounts of cheap food is coming to an end. There is going to be a massive amount of hunger and poverty in the years to come. Sowhat do all of you think about this? Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below….
May 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: