For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach ['What's Going To Happen To Us?' ..........]

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[Sub-Driver]

For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach

by Yuki Noguchi

All Things Considered, July 17, 2008 · A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.

Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver's education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.

Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.

Nunez's van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.

Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps. Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation.

[Sub-Driver]

check the pic...........

[DarthVader]

They could live for months on what they have stored up.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I would think just about everything in the kitchen cabinet is out of reach for those two. ;)

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Holy Toledo!

[Mr. Jeeves]

NPR does more harm than good to their cause of beating McCain in Ohio with this profile - every reader who sees that picture is going to be rolling their eyes in disgust.

[Coffee200am]

They’re eating something...

[wideawake]

Each of them weighs easily over 300.

Only in America do morbid obesity and "poverty" go hand in hand.

[caver]

Geez, they haven’t missed any meals despite being in self-imposed poverty.

[Oldexpat]

Get out of Dodge(Toledo). Head for Tennessee to get a job with VW in a right to work state. When the jobs dry up..you got to move. Sorry ladies, but get on the Greyhound and head south. Or try OK..they have very low unemployment and the oil industry is booming.

[rabscuttle385]

Hernandez received her high school diploma and has had several jobs in recent years. But now, because fewer restaurants and stores are hiring, she says she finds it hard to find a job.

I would suggest community college training in a productive field of study...and possibly slimming down a bit. And yes, with the limited income they have, grants and subsidized loans would be available to them.

Stop making excuses and just go for it.

[mort56]

They could live for months a couple of years on what they have stored up.

There...fixed it.

[research99]

Used Bicycle: $30.
Work Clothes: $50.
Losing the Spare Tire around your abdomen: Priceless

[Yaelle]

Definitely time to go on a peanut butter and celery diet for a couple weeks. No more drive thru’s for those folks.

[Night Hides Not]

check the pic...........

...just damn...

[Moonman62]

From the article:

People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child. "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'"

[Doohickey]

You’re fracking kidding me, right?

[NativeNewYorker]

WTF?

[Mark was here]

They could get a job filling in for the Hippos at the Toledo Zoo.

[redstateconfidential]

Muhahah, its like I told a Third World Freeper who was running down America, Okay,...how bout this,..all of Poor People.. are FAT!

[theDentist]

I'm sure I'm not the first to make this observation, but when the Soviet Union existed (much like China now) food was always becoming more scarce and hard to find and afford. After The Soviet Union failed, food became more plentiful and easier to obtain after time.

Now, we have a Congress pushing us closer and closer to Socialism, and food is getting pricier and (supposedly) harder to find.