"Biting recession leaves ever more Americans hungry" - that damn Obama!

[Sparkly]

Biting recession leaves ever more Americans hungry

By Nick Carey – 1 hr 58 mins ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The number of Americans receiving emergency food from the largest U.S. hunger-relief charity and its partners rose 46 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to a report released on Tuesday.

"Feeding America" said 37 million people, including 14 million children, needed emergency food aid each year, more than 10 percent of the U.S. population of 300 million. It based the figure on 61,000 interviews and 37,000 surveys of local charitable agencies.

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"This is a real challenge for America," said Dennis Smith, director of the Northern Illinois Food Bank. "Hunger has become almost epidemic in this country."

That damn Obama, letting people starve.

President Barack Obama has set a target of ending child hunger by 2015. Last year he backed a $1 billion annual increase in school lunch and other child nutrition programs.

That damn Obama, spending us into debt.

:sarcasm: <---- in case it's needed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/us_nm/us_hunger_usa

[Stinky The Clown]

1. That 37 million is one out of every eight people. Think about that.

Statistically, every eighth person you meet will have made use of a soup kitchen in the last year.