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re: Is Childhood Hunger in America Really A Problem?
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:01 pm to BluegrassBelle
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:01 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Now the debate as to why they’re starving is a whole other thing.
That is the underlying issue. Pretty much all public schools offer free breakfast and lunches now to underprivileged kids. Between that, welfare, and various churches/charities there is enough funding and food to adequately feed kids in the U.S. If parents aren't being the least bit responsible for managing those available resources, that is where the kids fall through the cracks.
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Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:07 pm to Demon Dean
We're not as gullible as others.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:09 pm to Pecker
I know the elementary school by my house has a lot of kids who get free lunches at school but in the summer there isn’t a free lunch so many go hungry. Several churches adopt them and anonymously donate meals or money for meals that are distributed so that no kid goes hungry. This is Prairieville so I can imagine some areas aren’t so lucky and kids don’t have resources to get food.
I grew up with a poor kid whose single mom worked nights. He would get off the bus in element school and go inside his trailer and some nights he had no dinner. I felt so bad for him. People would always donate clothes but he needed food.
I grew up with a poor kid whose single mom worked nights. He would get off the bus in element school and go inside his trailer and some nights he had no dinner. I felt so bad for him. People would always donate clothes but he needed food.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:13 pm to Packer
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I don't give a shite about them, but I do care about the litter of kids they are raising and how their fate is basically set a birth. They are the ones suffering by following in their parent's ignorant footsteps because they weren't raised properly
If we let them starve now you wouldn’t have to get a new tv later
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:16 pm to beerJeep
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No. It always is. Because they aren’t starving. Wanna see starving? Go to a village in the middle of nowhere Africa.
I once lived in Kenya, and traveled a lot through most of the adjacent countries, in comparison America has no problem with hunger, and America's poor would be considered wealthy in most of these places.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:17 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Working in education, I absolutely believe that stat.
Now the debate as to why they’re starving is a whole other thing.
Where I work a large portion of the students are eligible for free and reduced lunch. Many of these kids never miss school because we feed them 3 times a day. During long breaks the school often sends certain students home with boxes of pasta, sauce, bags of rice, p&j, crackers, Mac and cheese, and etc.
What I notice is that the kids get fed at home, but the families don’t keep food in the house. If the parents are gone long hours a meal or two can get skipped. Meals consist of take out, fast food, leftovers from work, etc.
it’s a life many of us are not aware of.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:30 pm to Phat Phil
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I dont believe it. Poverty level income people are fat AF.
Lets say you have $20 a week to buy groceries with. What gives the most calories to get through the week? Raman noodles and 25 cent honey buns OR Apples and chicken breast?
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:30 pm to Pecker
1) I'm hungry now
2) I don't know where I'll get my next meal
Fight adulthood hunger!
2) I don't know where I'll get my next meal
Fight adulthood hunger!
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:32 pm to PCRammer
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Lets say you have $20 a week to buy groceries with. What gives the most calories to get through the week? Raman noodles and 25 cent honey buns OR Apples and chicken breast?
That's not why they're buying ramen noodles and honey buns. Such a tired fricking argument.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:37 pm to PCRammer
They have more than $20/wk to buy food. They choose to spend 50%+ of it buying shite at the gas station. Gas stations will ring things like cigs and booze up as cokes or candy, so the idiots can have them.
La Purchase/EBT should only be for unprepared foods sold at grocery stores IMHO. Twizzlers and Newports shouldn't count as dinner
La Purchase/EBT should only be for unprepared foods sold at grocery stores IMHO. Twizzlers and Newports shouldn't count as dinner
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:43 pm to Centinel
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That's not why they're buying ramen noodles and honey buns. Such a tired fricking argument.
I get that some people are just going to be fatty, because fatty make bad choices. But you can't argue that healthier food is much more expensive than shitty food.
I think there might be one or two people, that if they afford it, would rather buy their kids white meat chicken instead of ground beef in a tube.
Hell, I'm not ashamed to admit it, I've been in that position myself...having to choose between 7 items of less healthy quality or 2 items of healthy quality just to get through the week. I never got fat because the only free thing to do was run, swim, bike and couldn't afford to go out and have fun.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:45 pm to Hammertime
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La Purchase/EBT should only be for unprepared foods sold at grocery stores IMHO. Twizzlers and Newports shouldn't count as dinner
amen. I've seen about a dozen instances of kids- actual kids- buying lays chips and a orange drink at the Winn Dixie in New Roads (when it was still open) with a La Purchase card.
Far be it from me to deny a kid a treat like chips & a soft drink, but don't bitch about not having food or money for food if your kid can go buy junk food and sugary drinks.
anecdotal evidence for sure, but still...
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:47 pm to Pecker
They ain’t in the hood. They are well marbled out there
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:48 pm to Pecker
It's a bigger problem than you think. Just from hearing stories from people I know who teach or work in public schools, there are kids who get the majority of their food from school breakfast and lunch.
It's actually kind of sad.
It's actually kind of sad.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:52 pm to OweO
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there are kids who get the majority of their food from school breakfast and lunch.
And again, that's on the parents...not from a lack of access to food.
Hunger in this country is a cultural problem, not a resource problem like in other nations.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:56 pm to OweO
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t's a bigger problem than you think. Just from hearing stories from people I know who teach or work in public schools, there are kids who get the majority of their food from school breakfast and lunch.
Why don't their parents feed them? Why is it the government's job to feed your kids? Why do they have multiple TVs? Why do they have Xboxs and playstations?
The parents don't worry about feeding their kids because they know someone else will do it.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:56 pm to Centinel
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And again, that's on the parents...not from a lack of access to food.
Hunger in this country is a cultural problem, not a resource problem like in other nations.
I haven't seen your responses in the thread. Yes, is on the parents. There are government resourced made available to them specifically for being able to feed their family, but when your mom is a crack or heroin addict or sells her monthly benefits for cents on the dollar so that she and her boyfriend can have cash to go play video poker... And lose it all within hours.. It impacts the kids.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:56 pm to Pecker
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The parents don't worry about feeding their kids because they know someone else will do it.
You always get more of what you subsidize. In this case laziness and shitty parenting.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 12:58 pm to OweO
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There are government resourced made available to them specifically for being able to feed their family, but when your mom is a crack or heroin addict or sells her monthly benefits for cents on the dollar so that she and her boyfriend can have cash to go play video poker... And lose it all within hours.. It impacts the kids.
Yes, but that's a parenting problem not a hunger problem. There is literally nothing that can be done to address that issue outside of removing the children from the parents.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 1:01 pm to Pecker
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Second, advocacy groups (with Michelle Obama as a leading spokesperson) now appear to have decided that the problem is childhood obesity, not hunger. The children, especially of the poor, are not going to bed hungry. They are eating too much of the wrong foods.
One problem doesn’t cancel out the other.
It’s not all or nothing. Poor people aren’t a homogeneous group of individuals who make the exact same decisions. Some poor people have lives that are complete train wrecks and, despite being eligible for stamps and free school lunch, simply can’t execute and do the seemingly simple things (fill out paperwork to get EBT card, go shopping, prep meals) to actually get meals in front of their kids.
Some people are just terrible decision makers or impulsive eaters and just bring a bunch of junk into the house (this BTW isn’t just a poor people problem).
Those two sets of people are not mutually exclusive so you can have lots of kids who miss meals and lots of kids who overeat.
This post was edited on 7/11/18 at 1:03 pm
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