Hunger in America

It’s scary to read that the number of Americans who have gone hungry at some point has grown by more than 40 percent since 2000, and then to consider that we’re in a major economic meltdown — one that man of the perpetrators will walk away from with bonuses and golden parachutes worth millions of dollars.

From CNN:

Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year’s sharp economic downturn, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.

Families with the highest rates of hunger were headed by single mothers, says the U.S. Agriculture Department.

The department’s annual report on food security showed that during 2007 the number of children who suffered a substantial disruption in the amount of food they typically eat was more than 50 percent above the 430,000 in 2006 and the largest figure since 716,000 in 1998.

Overall, the 36.2 million adults and children who struggled with hunger during the year was up slightly from 35.5 million in 2006. That was 12.2 percent of Americans who didn’t have the money or assistance to get enough food to maintain active, healthy lives.

Almost a third of those, 11.9 million adults and children, went hungry at some point. That figure has grown by more than 40 percent since 2000.

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One Response to “Hunger in America”

1. Loden Jinpa says:

   November 18, 2008 at 10:44 pm

   if that is happening in the U.S imagine how the rest of the world must live!