Study: Hunger in America jumps ‘unprecedented’ 46 percent

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Study: Hunger in America jumps ‘unprecedented’ 46 percent

By Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 -- 10:45 am

If there is any indicator of the toll that the Great Recession has taken on the public, it would be the statistics beginning to emerge about hunger in the US.

According to a study from the nation's largest food bank operator, the number of Americans in need of food aid has jumped 46 percent in three years, including a 50 percent jump in the number of children needing food assistance, and a 64 percent increase in hunger in senior citizens' homes.

The study, Hunger in America 2010, found that 37 million people, or roughly one in eight US residents, received food aid in 2009. That's a 46 percent jump from a similar survey carried out in 2006.

"Clearly, the economic recession, resulting in dramatically increasing unemployment nationwide, has driven unprecedented, sharp increases in the need for emergency food assistance and enrollment in federal nutrition programs," said Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding America, which operates some 200 food banks across the country.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/2010/02/study-unprecedented-hunger-us/

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http://feedingamerica.org/faces-of-hunger/hunger-in-america-2010.aspx

[lib2DaBone]

1. ..And Disneyland-on-the-Potomac still doesn't get it.....

Tax cut to stimulate this and that... what good are tax cuts if you are hungry and living in a tent?

Meanwhile, BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are zooming past us in technology, education, energy, manufacturing.

There has to be a special hell for politicians...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. K&R

[leftstreet]

3. America, Fuck Yeah!

K&R

[Mari333]

4. The Pentagon eats very very well however. knr

[cutlassmama]

5. The Pentagon, Congress, and Corporations...all the same thing n/t

[asdjrocky]

6. I personally know people who live on my street-

who often don't get enough to eat. We all do what we can to help each other around here, and it's not unusual for people to take people that aren't working plates.