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Usually those flyers are about new books or discount coupons but this time it was about hunger in the USA.
What called my attention on this one I posted below, was not that 1 in 8 United State people doesn't have what to eat, but how it increased in 6 years.
When I was living in Blacksburg, VA, I used to listen to public radio and I remember how surprise I got when I heard for the first time that people were suffering for not having what to eat in the USA. It was a real shock for me, because I never thought that this society problem was present also in rich-organized "1st countries". I really thought it was a topic from developing countries only!
So, back there the statistic showed that 1 in 4 people were struggling with hunger and now it is 1 in 8 as the non-governamental organization Feeding America shows and I'm not surprise at all, unfortunatelly.
Thank God things are changing and I do hope that those unfortunate people can get not "just" a full plate of food but a job, education and their dignity back!
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Unfortunately that is correct. And I am not sure that will change soon. More people than not work 2 - 3 jobs to be able to feed their families, here in Canada too. I don't know the percentage, but too many people work for minimum wage - even if you have a good education. And the problem is that the worst food is cheap, and so the overweight problem continues to rise. What I don't understand, though, is, that most people have huge lawns, which have no purpose at all. Most of them could plant their own veggies, organic at that, but don't.
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