Hungry Children in America
Bringing attention to the children who go hungry in America. Encouraging donations, sponsorship of a child in the US, and volunteerism.
All profits from this lens go to Action Against Hunger.35 Million People Food Insecure
Hunger and food insecurity have been growing. Nearly 35 million people - including 13 million children - in the United States were hungry or living on the edge of hunger in 2002 (the most recent year for which data are available). Since 1999, food insecurity has increased three years in a row, in total by 3.9 million individuals - 2.8 million adults and more than one million children. 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
The Numbers Are Rising Dramatically
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
Something Just About Anyone Can Do To Help
Make a shoe-box gift for a needy American child.
Obama on Hunger in America
Open-letter response from the Presidential Candidate
At The Huffington Post, online, Barak Obama responds (Question #4: Specifically, what is your plan of action to eliminate poverty in America?) to an open letter from Deepak Chopra, Russell Simmons, and Benjamin Chavis.
Note: I searched and have not found John McCain's response.
AARP Bulletin Today
Five-Part Series On Hunger In America
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?
Feeding America Video
Formerly SecondHarvest.org
The 2008 Great American Bake Sale Launches March 1!
Join Share Our Strength to help organizations in your community end childhood hunger.
Bake Sale Update
Registration is closed until March 1, 2009, but you can still have bake sales. Learn more here
Garden Harvest
Experiencing Poverty
Inspiring and heartbreaking stories
Here's my favorite link:
A Starving Nation
List of links for learning more
- 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)
- Food Stamps Program
- This 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.
- Working Americans Respond to Bush's Last SOTU
- "At the end of last year, I did the math and I realized that my total income for the year-after the expenses I cover for my child care center-was the same as what I was making 40 years ago, when I was in high school."
- 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.
- Key Findings 2006
- When you visit, click Local Picture to see how your state is doing.
Hungry in America in Blog Land
What bloggers are saying
- Hungry in America
- I was visiting Long's drugstore last week and an elderly African American woman was buying lots of top ramen. read more.
- Going Hungry in America/how Could it Happen Here?
- When Carole Drew retired from her job with Volunteers of America four years ago, she thought that her modest savings would help assure that she could make ends meet. If for some reason she ran into trouble, Drew figured, help would be ...
- Who' Hungry in America
- Unfortunately tonight 38 million American's will go hungry or be on the brink of hunger. Having to choose between paying the house rent or buy food. Having to buy medicine or buy food. What if you had to make those choices tonight. ...
- hungry in america
- i'm hungry. was totally spoiled with pizza and 2 whopper juniors yesterday, and now i expect him to wrangle us up some dinner. i'm too much. i'm trying to feed myself with other things like cigarettes and information and music. ...
Fellow Lensmaster Spotlight
Christopher Scott
Reader Feedback
For Friends of Hunger in America
Your feedback is welcome!
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JeremyL
How can we spend so much on military might while children are starving? A great lens that keeps reminding us of what's really important. Posted October 03, 2008 |
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Jewelsofawe
We definately need to help one another. I agree with Hilary Clinton... Posted October 03, 2008 |
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The_Homeopath
Thank you for using your squid powers to call attention to such a vital issue here in America. Posted September 26, 2008 |
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spirituality
Very important topic - that gets ignored too easily. I applaud Obama for responding to the question asked, and I believe it's outragious for the most powerful country in the world to have so little care for it's hungry children and adults. Posted September 06, 2008 |
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EverythingMouse
Those statistics are so shocking. A great lens which draws attention to an issue which is so often forgotten or denied. Posted September 01, 2008 |
