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Thread #120208   Message #2839425
Posted By: Sawzaw
14-Feb-10 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Subject: RE: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
"I think the link to a pdf with the reference about food poverty can be found a little way down on this page. US food crisis"

It says on blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/01/26/the-u-s-food-crisis-1-in-5-went-hungry-last-year/

Is that a right wing blog or a left wing blog Bobert?

It says:

"In it comes the striking news that one in five Americans went hungry at some point in 2009."

Now we have gone from 1 in 5 children go to bed hungry as per USDA report to 1 in 5 Americans went hungry at some point in 2009"

I am guilty of being hungry at some point in 2009. Were you ever hungry in 2009?

And it refers to a non USDA report that says:

"Of the 436 congressional districts (including the District of Columbia), only 23 had a food hardship rate below ten percent. 311 had a rate 15 percent or higher. In 139 food hardship was reported by one fifth or more of all respondent households."

So now it is 31% of all congressional districts has 20% of the households reporting a food hardship.

Quite different form the original Bobert fact that 1 in 5 children go to bed hungry"