Hungry Children in America
Bringing attention to the children who go hungry in America. Encouraging your support through the many choices available — such as making a donation, sponsorship of a child in the US, and volunteerism. Please help a child today that is Hungry In America.
35 Million People
Nearly 35 million people, including 13 million children, in the United States were food insecure — hungry or living on the edge of hunger — in 2002 (the most recent year for which data are available).
Source: FRAC.org
15 Million Women Living In Poverty
There are more than 15 million women living in poverty in the US.
Source: US Census Bureau
Dramatic Rise In Numbers
The number of severely poor Americans (a family of four with two children and an annual income less than $9,903) grew 26 percent from 2000 to 2005.
Source: SoundOffForPoverty.org
August 2009
Hungry In America
Report For 2007
The number of hungry children in the US rose 50% in 2007.
USDA's branch, the Economic Research Service, has released the figures for food insecurity in America for 2007.
Read the full report here.
Something Just About Anyone Can Do To Help
Make a shoe-box gift for a needy American child. (This lens is all about shoe-box gifting.)
President Obama on Hunger in America
His open-letter response during his campaign for president
At The Huffington Post, online, Barack Obama responds to an open letter from Deepak Chopra, Russell Simmons, and Benjamin Chavis. (Question #4: Specifically, what is your plan of action to eliminate poverty in America?)
AARP Bulletin Today
Five-Part Series On Hunger In America
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Special five-part series from AARP Bulletin Today
Part I: How Could It Happen Here?
Part II: Food Programs Feel The Squeeze
Part III: What Happened To The Food Surplus?
Part IV: Food Stamps: Poverty's Barometer
Part V: What Can We Do?
Video From Feeding America
Formerly SecondHarvest.org
Folks talking about coming to the food bank to get much-needed meals:
curated content from YouTube
The 2009 Great American Bake
Join Share Our Strength to help organizations in your community end childhood hunger.
Garden Harvest
Get down to grass roots with this organization. Donate equipment — from pick-up trucks, to tractors, to office machines. Donate your farm. Donate farm animals — sheep, chickens, cows, and more — to go to families for help in producing their food. A flock of chickens, about 12 hens and one rooster, will produce around a dozen eggs every other day! That's enough for the table and enough for sale. "Adopt" a goat owned by Garden Harvest. Garden Harvest will take care of the goat's needs so that she can produce milk for the Baltimore area's poor children. Kudos to the volunteers at Garden Harvest!
Experiencing Poverty
Inspiring and heartbreaking stories
People writing about their experiences with poverty.
Here's my favorite link:
A Starving Nation
Learn more through these links:
- The homeless, the hungry, and the working poor
- We have a growing crisis in America today, and it is our own countries blatant neglect of the homeless, the hungry, and the working poor.
- NPR: Hunger in America
- Some 38 million people in America are considered "food insecure" — they have trouble finding the money to keep food on the table. NPR profiles families who have faced hunger in three different settings: rural, suburban and urban America.
- Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
- The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national organization working to improve public policies in order to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research, policy, public education and advocacy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of hundreds of state and local organizations across the country.
- U.S. Hunger Issues
- Check our U.S. section for the facts you need about hunger and poverty in the United States, information on nutrition programs, and a list of national organizations fighting hunger. Read the latest background paper on faith and our national priorities: Budgeting for Justice.
- Feeding America
- Feeding America provides low-income individuals and families with the fuel to survive and even thrive. As the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief charity, our network members supply food to more than 25 million Americans each year, including 9 million children and 3 million seniors. (Formerly SecondHarvest.org)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- This program (formerlay known as the Food Stamp Program, puts healthy food on the table for 26 million people each month. The Food Stamp Program helps low-income people and families buy the food they need for good health.
- The Geography of American Poverty
- Do a mouse rollover to see a state's poverty ranking.
- Charity Evaluator
- Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator, provides free financial evaluations of America's charities. We are the individual donor's first source for unbiased news and information on philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, wise giving, donating money, charitable donations, and charity ratings.
Perspective
From FeedingAmerica.org: 1 in 8 Americans are at risk for hunger.
Hungry in America in Blog Land
What bloggers are saying
- Hungry in America, 2010 « Musing By Moonlight
- WHO'S HUNGRY IN AMERICA, 2010: The Feeding America system served an estimated 37.0 million different people annually, an increase of 46% since 2005. This includes 33.9 million pantry users, 1.8 million kitchen users, and 1.3 million ...
- One in Eight Americans Seek Food Banks | Economy In Crisis
- It is critical that we ensure that no child goes to bed hungry in America.? The influx of hungry Americans seeking food assistance is putting a severe strain on the groups that serve them. The report found that 5.7 million people are ...
- Ellen Gustafson: Three Years on: FEEDing Globally…and Locally ...
- At the end of February in New York and Los Angeles, the FEED Foundation will co-host two events to support Hungry in America, a documentary sounding the alarm of food security issues here at home. This will launch our FEED USA Campaign, ...
- Hungry In America: A Documentary In Progress - Los Angeles ...
- Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining. Hungry In America: A Documentary In Progress. LA Weekly news, blogs, music, movies, restaurants and the arts.
Christopher_Scott
From Christopher Scott's profile page here at Squidoo
Christopher Scott is the Founder & Team Leader of A Day of Hope; a program that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to needy families for Thanksgiving.Christopher and his volunteers actively use Squidoo as a platform to advocate and raise money for A Day of Hope (and you can too!).
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A Day of Hope
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A Day of Hope is a program of ASI, at California State University, Stanislaus which gives hope and encouragement by delivering baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Baskets are delivered to needy families in Modesto and Turlock wh...
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- Angelo Angelo Feb 8, 2010 @ 6:04 pm
- In today’s world the old model of just giving aid doesn’t work.
In the first year of activity of our organization we carried out the single largest food drop in US History and undertook the largest teacher training in African History. We have Women’s Empowerment Centers with classes graduating in weaving and tailoring; orphanages and primary schools funded and built to educate the leaders of tomorrow and agricultural programs educating farmers on new ways of cropping and the development of products to deal with malnutrition both in the developing and developed worlds.
With nothing more than a desire to shift the world, and an untested idea of how to accomplish this goal, we have now:
- Attracted over 5,500 Members in numerous countries who are committed to creating positive change in their lives and communities and around the world.
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- Attracted media attention for our humanitarian work across the world with CNN and Fox as we carried out the single largest food drop in US history and the largest teacher training in African History.
So, don't wait! Start today being a part of an exciting group that is changing the world! www.givewhileyoureceive.com/angelocostantino
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- Heather426 Heather426 Dec 14, 2009 @ 12:11 am
- Nice that you are pointing out yet another area of real need! I pray that one day none of our children will be hungry. I have friends who grew up not having food on many days and it's a very hard thing to endure. Food insecurity leads to overall insecurity...so sad. Blessed.
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- TanyaWhaley TanyaWhaley Dec 5, 2009 @ 11:33 pm
- Nice lens, I really enjoyed reading so much I didn't know about! 5*s
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- ftuley ftuley Dec 2, 2009 @ 10:44 am
- I love your lenses, you are gifted! This is another nice one. Thank you for visiting and rating my "Women Abuse...Domestic Violence " I'm truly grateful. 5*
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- Spook Spook Nov 9, 2009 @ 5:25 am
- Still find all this hard to believe. Blessed by an Angel.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 5, 2009 @ 7:18 am
- Such an important lens with a powerful message. SquidAngel Blessings for you.
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Nov 1, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
- Your blackboxes with the statistics is very effective. Thank you for speaking up on this topic.
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- Shelly Shelly Oct 3, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
- Another sobering lens by you--and of course, excellent! Sadly, with today's economy more programs are being cut that serve those who are deperately in need. I worked in a Title 1 school that offered free breakfasts to all students--a wonderful program, but children need their adults at home to get them moving early enough to take advantage of it. There are so many facets of this issue that should not exist in our nation.
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- GrowWear GrowWear Sep 29, 2009 @ 7:14 am | in reply to KathyMcGraw
- So true. A child can't concentrate on anything but hunger in these situations. Hunger hurts. Indeed, it's all they can think about.
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- KathyMcGraw KathyMcGraw Sep 28, 2009 @ 11:56 pm
- It's true many people don't think about our children going hungry, except at the Holidays. We never really could get it right to make sure people had enough to eat everyday. Being hungry affects so much in a childs life, how do they concentrate, how do they care about much of anything if they are only concentrating on eating.
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