Nearly 50 million lack adequate food in U.S.

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More than 49 million working people in the United States lacked access to adequate food last year, the largest number since the government started keeping track of “food insecurity” 14 years ago. This is an increase of 4 percent from the previous year, according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The report, which is based on Census Bureau surveys conducted in December 2008, said that nearly 17 million children—more than one in five—were living in households that lacked enough food. The number of children who sometimes were “outright hungry” rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million in one year, reported the Washington Post. Nearly 15 percent of people of all ages did not consistently have adequate food last year, compared with about 11 percent in 2007. The Post called this “the greatest deterioration in access to food during a single year in the history of the report.”
tags: rotten shame, disgusting, hungry people
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  1. #1    "Particularly troubling?" We don't see him adding "disturbing and shameful" and we here in Congress and the WH are going to correct this situation "toot sweet".
    written by Sparrows since 77 days 17 hours 8 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    and that's an underestimate.
    written by epppie since 77 days 16 hours 42 minutesepppie
  3. #3    There's some of that "FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY" that Mr. Obama's Likudnik neo-cons hold so near and dear....
    "Ve must KILL ZE ENEMY... and all ze sub-human races... zo ve can NEGLECT ze medical care for you and your children, ja?
    And not even see you have adequate food, Jawohl!
    Well, if you can step through the looking glass, it is plain hysterical that the warmongers and dictators lovers now RULE America, in the name of "freedom & democracy" of course....
    written by veracity since 76 days 23 hours 33 minutesveracity
  4. #4    At least the additional 34K troops heading for Afghanistan will be fed at about $1 million each. Why isn't this fourth reich dead yet?
    written by bluefin since 76 days 21 hours 45 minutesbluefin
  5. #5    Actually Bluefin #4,
    Thou art vastly under-valuing the cost
    of our superbly well-armed troops.
    According to the latest advertised pricing,
    the damages to the defrauded US tax payer
    for the invaluable services of each
    over-glorified volunteer peasant shalt be...
    $1 billion per year per uniformed warm-body.
    The glory of war, cheap at any price!!

    On the other hand,
    watered down health care reform for unarmed peasants? Unaffordable at any price.
    Corporate welfare lavished on our compassionate private health insurance nobility? PRICELESS!
    Therefore, ferget not to mutter dutifully thy patriotic ritual of thanking them fer their service...
    written by Buzzard-Breath since 76 days 17 hours 33 minutesBuzzard-Breath
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