NYC Hunger Experience 2008 Update: Food Poverty Soars as Recession Hits Home, a report released today by the Food Bank For New York City shows that over the past five years, the number of New York City residents having difficulty affording needed food has spiked to nearly 4 million - doubling from approximately 2 million in 2003 - representing almost half of all New York City residents (48 percent). Approximately 3.5 million New Yorkers are concerned about needing food assistance (soup kitchens, food pantries and/or food stamps) during the next twelve months, including 2.1 million who have never accessed it before. This mirrors the finding that 3.7 million New Yorkers would not be able to afford food within three months of losing their household income. This alarming prospect may become all too real with unemployment at a 15-year high of 6.7 percent and predicted to reach 9 percent by the end of 2009.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Food-Poverty-NYC-Soars-Recession/story.aspx?guid={92BC8B09-5DAB-47E6-BF6B-C6FD277EAA67} (here's the link, for some reason I can't enclose the link)
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Poverty is a terrible thing. And it can be eradicated so easily. The trick is convincing people that it's a problem for them even when they are not impoverished. And then convincing them that it's easy to eradicate.
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