Hungry In America

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Hungry Children in America

Bringing attention to the children who go hungry in America. Encouraging your support through the many choices available — such as donations, sponsorship of a child in the US, and volunteerism. Feed a hungry child today.

 

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

Barack Obama






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

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

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.

Old Glory
Do you have a neighbor going to bed hungry?

Hungry in America in Blog Land 

What bloggers are saying

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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!).


Know Someone Who's Hungry? 

How do you help those in need?

aj2008 wrote...

Such an important lens with a powerful message. SquidAngel Blessings for you.

ReplyPosted November 05, 2009

kimmanleyort wrote...

Your blackboxes with the statistics is very effective. Thank you for speaking up on this topic.

ReplyPosted November 01, 2009

Lensmaster

Shelly wrote

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.

Reply Posted October 03, 2009

GrowWear wrote...

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.

ReplyPosted September 29, 2009

KathyMcGraw wrote...

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.

ReplyPosted September 28, 2009

Michey wrote...

This is another powerful message, and with the Homeless lens you really are a great advocate for poor people.
Bravo! It is all I can say! This is a very good debate we all have to follow.
Michey

ReplyPosted September 19, 2009

JaguarJulie wrote...

Hungry in America surely ties right in with Homeless in America! It is TIME to focus on what is important here.

ReplyPosted September 10, 2009

mukunda22 wrote...

Hunger in the world's wealthiest nation?? Why??

Thank you for nudging along a consciousness raising on this subject!!

ReplyPosted September 08, 2009

Spook wrote...

Came back again to see an excellent lens. Still cannot believe this can happen in America. Something has to be badly wrong.

ReplyPosted August 16, 2009

24websurf wrote...

Superb job bringing awareness to this issue! Thank you, MiMi, for your unflagging support of humans everywhere!

ReplyPosted August 13, 2009

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