Americans are starving.

[AZOldGal66]

https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2023-11/to ... 20Missouri.

Top ten hungriest states… meaning most food insecure, the most hungry children going to bed at night… Texas makes the list.

Offhand, do you know what these individual state's are doing to help lower these percentages?

[Baconqueen13]

All southern Red states........seems like a problem with the management of the governing party.

[Slimshandy]

All southern Red states........seems like a problem with the management of the governing party.

I dunno, I’m from California, food insecurity is a problem everywhere.
https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/ ... y%20(CHIS).

[mommy_jules]

https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2023-11/to ... 20Missouri.

Top ten hungriest states… meaning most food insecure, the most hungry children going to bed at night… Texas makes the list.

Offhand, do you know what these individual state's are doing to help lower these percentages?

I know 5 out of the 10 states declined to sign up for the Summer EBT program.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/us/s ... icans.html

[Anonymous 2]

All southern Red states........seems like a problem with the management of the governing party.

I dunno, I’m from California, food insecurity is a problem everywhere.
https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/ ... y%20(CHIS).

Absolutely but California money is so mismanaged. In a state that spends 42,000 per homeless person such poverty shouldn't exist but absolutely does. I'm still trying to figure out what they're doing with that money especially as I drive by miles of tents lining the freeways and watch homeless dig in the trash for food. I have a hard time believing there's only 181,000 homeless in California too though.
And food insecurity is terrible.
I moved from California to Kentucky and I see so much less homelessness and so much less food insecurity here. Now eastern Kentucky was hit hard and does have a lot of poverty because their livelihood was taken away when they shut down the coal mines. They were doing fine until the federal government decided to take away their source of income. But let's just blame that on the fact it's a red state (with a democratic governor by the way).

[mater-three]

All southern Red states........seems like a problem with the management of the governing party.

Maybe - but let’s not forget those states are more rural too.

[Baconqueen13]

All southern Red states........seems like a problem with the management of the governing party.

Maybe - but let’s not forget those states are more rural too.

Oh there's a whole lot that contributes, certainly. But the fact that the poorest states in our country and the ones that rely the most on social programs tend to overwhelmingly also be red states that vote against funding social programs like the summer EBT for kids, is hard to ignore.

[mommy_jules]

All southern Red states........seems like a problem with the management of the governing party.

Maybe - but let’s not forget those states are more rural too.

Oh there's a whole lot that contributes, certainly. But the fact that the poorest states in our country and the ones that rely the most on social programs tend to overwhelmingly also be red states that vote against funding social programs like the summer EBT for kids, is hard to ignore.

Yup…

Food insecurity among children increases in the summer, when millions of children lose access to free and reduced-price school meals. Some schools provide summer meal programs, but only about 1 in 6 children eligible for on-site summer meals actually get them because families lack transportation, especially in rural areas, The Washington Post reports.

Summer EBT programs address these problems by allowing families to use EBT cards at their local grocery store. Early pilot programs were shown to reduce the rate of children suffering extreme hunger by a third while also expanding access to healthier foods like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, according to the Post.

https://eji.org/news/alabama-rejects-mi ... -children/

[SallyMae]

Or we value the ability to kill people over the ability to feed people…

It's not either/or.

No, but as a capitalist society, changing to a more communistic form of government would be a lot harder to achieve than the lessening of a military budget.

And since a lessening of the military budget would solve the problem…


The easiest way for a ball to roll should be prioritized…

What do you mean by "a more communistic form of government"?

[Anonymous 3]

The comments some of you make..... Good grief.