Hunger in America
One out of six americans say they don’t have enough to eat.
Thirty percent of Americans were classified as food insecure-you don’t know when youre next meal is coming from-. Fifty million americans
Missisipi has the highest rate of food insecurity in the us. It also has the highest rate of obesity.
Obesity and hunger are neighbors
Fuit and vegetables price has gone up by forty percent since nineteen eighty; processed food price has gone down by also forty percent. Tha has to do with our farming policies of what we subsidized and what we don’t.
In the past, family farmer were mostly benefiting from this programs; now agribusinesses are the ones benefinting by these programs.
Since nineteen nighty eight, the USDA has spent more than a trillion dollars on farm subsidies.
Before the USDA subsidies has gone from seventy percent to percent: the biggest and largest farming coorporations.
From all of what the USDA subsidize, only one percent is in fruits and vegestables.
Food deserts: part of the country where you cant find nutritious food, or they are very far awar.
Approximately twentythree.five million americans live in food deserts.
The assistance programs in the united states are very hard to qulify to qualify for. Either youre starving, or your don’t get any help. To qualify for food stamps, a family of three must make less than twenty four thousand per year.
The average food stamp benefit is three dollars a day.
There are fourty four million American in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, food stamps.
One out of every two kids in the US, at some point of their childhood, will be on food assistance.
Children get sick.
The schools have ninety five cents per meal.
Every five years, congress reauthorizes the child nutrition act, which determines funding for school meals.
If we don’t do anything, this generation will die younger than its parents generation.
Then new ‘the healthy, hungry free act’ increased six cents per meal. Took the
Thirty percent of Americans were classified as food insecure-you don’t know when youre next meal is coming from-. Fifty million americans
Missisipi has the highest rate of food insecurity in the us. It also has the highest rate of obesity.
Obesity and hunger are neighbors
Fuit and vegetables price has gone up by forty percent since nineteen eighty; processed food price has gone down by also forty percent. Tha has to do with our farming policies of what we subsidized and what we don’t.
In the past, family farmer were mostly benefiting from this programs; now agribusinesses are the ones benefinting by these programs.
Since nineteen nighty eight, the USDA has spent more than a trillion dollars on farm subsidies.
Before the USDA subsidies has gone from seventy percent to percent: the biggest and largest farming coorporations.
From all of what the USDA subsidize, only one percent is in fruits and vegestables.
Food deserts: part of the country where you cant find nutritious food, or they are very far awar.
Approximately twentythree.five million americans live in food deserts.
The assistance programs in the united states are very hard to qulify to qualify for. Either youre starving, or your don’t get any help. To qualify for food stamps, a family of three must make less than twenty four thousand per year.
The average food stamp benefit is three dollars a day.
There are fourty four million American in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, food stamps.
One out of every two kids in the US, at some point of their childhood, will be on food assistance.
Children get sick.
The schools have ninety five cents per meal.
Every five years, congress reauthorizes the child nutrition act, which determines funding for school meals.
If we don’t do anything, this generation will die younger than its parents generation.
Then new ‘the healthy, hungry free act’ increased six cents per meal. Took the