This is only the beginning folks. You ain't seen nothin' yet!Posted on 08/21/2011 8:37:16 PM PDT by Nachum
– SAN FRANCISCO — One in four California households with children reported food hardship, according to a new analysis of Gallup data released last Thursday by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).
“It’s disturbing, but not surprising,” said Kelly Hardy, director of health policy at Children Now.
The report analyzed data gathered as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index project’s responses to the question: “Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?”
“It sends a clear signal of economic distress, particularly for families with children,” noted James Weill, president of FRAC. “The answers to the question reveal there are times that these families are going without eating a meal, or the parents are skipping a meal for their children, or children are skipping meals.”
California had the second highest number of metropolitan areas with rates of food hardship in households with children in 2009-2010, according to the report.
According to Kidsdata.org, a project of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, which tracks the health and well being of children in communities across the nation, 68.6 percent of students in schools in Fresno County and 65.6 percent in Los Angeles County were eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals in 2010.
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Sooprise...sooprise....you get what you promote.
No problem — taxpayers can afford food for their kids. Thanks Nachum.
that is what the californicate wants.
the californicate is deliberately over regulating businesses
so that the businesses and middle class leave the state.
Notice the new Leftist lingo — “food hardship” rather than “hungry”?
Just as Thomas Sowell says, they keep defining “poverty” up so as to continue to support the poverty pimps and the welfare industry.
Even if no one ever was even a teeny-tiny bit hungry, the Left would argue that there was a still a problem, conveniently called “food hardship,” which means that some people do have food that is as good or as nutritious or as healthy as other people. And that is not fair.
hey I didn’t vote for the jerk. I got laid off from the Boy Scout of America in Glendale Ca they have NO money. I have been looking for work for 15 months. My husband is on disability, for stress, I broke my spine in April, had surger in June and never going on disability, the surgeon told me he would not sign for it, I have been looking for work straight through, but there is NONE. We are about to lose everything we have worked for our whole life. This should not be happening in America. This is HELL! I hope God will come save us from this horrible president he is worse than Jimmy Carter! Way worse.
Um, the way they push the WIC program, I wonder how true that is.
I had a baby last week, and when I was drugged and alone (with babe) sleeping in my room a lady came in and woke me up and excitedly told me all these wonderful things I could be getting to feed myself and baby. She wanted to write me down on her clipboard. I figured out it was WIC and told her I wasn’t eligible and her cheery speech stopped and she quickly left.
How many people sign up for all those wonderful goodies? How do they prove their eligibility? How many people who sign are not in the country legally? Grabbing drugged new moms to sign up is just ridiculous.
I hesitate to call their dwellings homes.
“Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?”
“The answers to the question reveal there are times that these families are going without eating a meal, or the parents are skipping a meal for their children, or children are skipping meals.”
Crap disembodied statistic. The author should be summarily shot, for malfeasence.
‘Does this mean one in four Californians is here illegally?’
Seems like it.
This is only the beginning folks. You ain't seen nothin' yet!Congratulations Yaelle,
Hope you and the newborn are well!
Isn’t food hardship defined somewhere as missing a meal once in 30 days? Sounded like something I heard on Quinn and Rose recently.
“One in Four ARIZONA Families Can't Afford Food for their Kids”
Sounds to me like the grand opening of a new propaganda campaign for more tax money.
Don't these folks know that local news is now available worldwide?
100% of all men that answered the question “Have you stopped beating your wife?” have admitted to being physical abusers.
These headlines mean nothing to me.
Turn to the next page of the newspaper and they will be telling us how 30% of Californians are obese and how it effects the poor even more.
>> This should not be happening in America. This is HELL!
The jerk nor the Leftists in Media are acknowledging these hardships and adversities; they’re facilitating it in order to systematically reconstruct US labor. They are Communists.
Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here’s your damn Change!
Skipping an occasional meal would probably be good for most of us.
A brief investigative tour of Walmart will convince anyone that starvation is not the greatest threat to the less well-off of America.
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