CNN report on the hungry in America and more

Please see the CNN report: entitled Tough choices for America's hungry.  http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/02/food.stamps.economy/
Or a New York Times report  on the hungry in America
http://food.change.org/blog/view/how_many_football_stadiums_can_americas_hungry_people_fill

An excert from another web site: dated 11/08

WHEN ORGANIZERS with the Heart of Compassion food bank in Montebello, Calif., planned a food giveaway recently, they decided to keep it low key, advertising it at just a few churches and schools.




When the day of the giveaway arrived, however, they were stunned to find 500 people in line in Montebello Park before dawn, hours before the pantry would open. "By noon, thousands of people stood in the warm November sun," reported the Los Angeles Times. "Those in line hardly spoke, gazing into the park or holding on to restless children."



In all, nearly 5,000 people showed up seeking food that day--more than double the number expected.



Such stories are becoming increasingly common--though you wouldn't know it to judge from the mainstream media. There's plenty of coverage of the economic crisis, of course--but most of the focus is on the chaos on Wall Street and in the financial system.



Meanwhile, the crisis is taking root across the U.S.--and hitting working people hard.



The Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati set a record this week, with 7,661 people standing in the rain and cold to receive emergency food boxes before Thanksgiving--an increase of 19 percent over the first day of last year's Thanksgiving food distribution, according to WLWT news.

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If you do a Google or Bing search on Hungry in America, You will come up with many hits.
Hungry people in America tells me the Economy is not good here. Please note that I would want to live here more than anywhere else in the world. I am not running down America, juat saying we have a problem to fix.