No one in America is hungry unless it is by choice. There is free food everywhere.
Especially at the grocery store.
We may have people who don't know where their next meal is coming from, but they don't have to go without one.
I rememember a taxi driver in NYC from Ghana answering me, when I asked how he decided to come to America, "I wanted to live in a place where the poor people are fat!"
Amen. I worked for a church near Newark NJ dispensing food during the holiday season and it took them from Christmas until May to get rid of one small room of it.
The drug addicted (um...homeless I mean) of NYC will totally turn you down for food when panhandling for money.
This is like the US agency that does studies on poverty. They always work the numbers up. Otherwise, they don't have a reason to exist. Pathetic. The "poverty rate" in this country doesn't take into account home ownership, car ownership, commodity ownership, or debt. Therefore a single parent with two children working for min wage living in a large house with her mother and having two cars and loads of food and zero debt is "poor" whereas a college grad w/ a $20k year job and $100,000 in student loans and no car nor house is "middle class."
Disgusting.