USDA: Record 49.1 Million Americans faced hunger in 2008

[AllentownJake]

Nearly one in six Americans lived in households that struggled to afford food at some point last year as tight credit and the fastest rate of food inflation since 1980 combined to strain budgets, the government said.

About 49.1 million people were “food insecure” in 2008, up 36 percent from a year earlier, when 36.2 million Americans had difficulty staying well-fed, the Department of Agriculture said Monday in a report. That’s the most since 1995, when the USDA conducted its first survey on food insecurity and 29 percent higher than the previous record in 2004.

The rise, the third straight, will undoubtedly continue this year, with a record 36.5 million people receiving food stamps in August, said Jim Weill, the president of the Food Research and Action Center.

http://economy.kansascity.com/?q=node/4801

[closeupready]

1. "food insecure" = "hungry", right?

What is with this doublespeak? Honestly, was George Orwell prophetic or what?

[AllentownJake]

2. Yeah I caught that

I guess they didn't want to say hungry.

[guitar man]

3. k&r

Countering the unrec troll ;)

[RedCloud]

4. Great job Bush. Terrorists could not be prouder.