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Are 35 Million Americans Going Hungry?11/26/07Are 35 Million Americans Going Hungry?I have linked to an article from the CATO institute which questions the common statistic that 10% of Americans are going hungry. The author suggests that perhaps 1% would be more fair. Even that seems high to me, these are just survey results after all. There might be a margin of error greater than 1%. And I just read over the survey. There weren't any questions that asked about household income, and there weren't any options for anything like: "I qualify for food stamps but just haven't bothered to sign up" or even "My children don't get enough to eat because I spent all my money on cigarettes" It really burns me that some liars even claim that 20% of all children are going to bed hungry every night. I wish I could find a recording of their shameful radio commercial that pushed that particular lie. Comments, Pingbacks:
Comment from: John [Visitor]
There are challenges in every community, however in my city (phoenix metro) there are food shelters available that feeds anyone who shows up. Unless those shelters are not close enough for a homeless person to travel to I cannot see folks going hungry. It's a big issue that needs constant attention focused on it. We cannot let anyone go hungry.
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