You have heard of the Land Down Under or the Land of the Free or possibly the Land that Time Forgot…..but there is another that is NOT reported so much by the mainstream media….poverty and hunger in the US….with all the crap that the economic collapse has given us there is one that is NOT acceptable, at least in my way of thinking……child poverty!
Black listed news was compiled an excellent list of horrible consequences……
#1 Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007.
#2 According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, 1.6 millionAmerican children “were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other families last year”.
#3 The percentage of children living in poverty in the United States increased from 16.9 percent in 2006 to nearly 22 percent in 2010. In the UK and in France the child poverty rate is well under 10 percent.
#4 A higher percentage of American children is living in poverty today than was living in poverty back in 1975.
#5 The number of children living in poverty in the U.S. has risen for four years in a row.
#6 There are 10 different U.S. states where at least one out of every four babies is born to a family living in poverty.
#7 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.
#8 According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
#9 In the United States today, more than 35 percent of all African-American children are living in poverty and more than 33 percent of all Hispanic children are living in poverty.
#10 There are seven million children in the United States today that are not covered by health insurance at all.
#11 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
#12 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.
#13 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps.
#14 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.
#15 In Washington D.C., the “child food insecurity rate” is 32.3%.
#16More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.
These show the extent of how bad the recession is on the kids….yes, it is bad for everybody (with the exception of Wall Street) but how bad does it have to get to force our politicians to face this problem? I thought children were our future, if so the future is pretty damn bleak!
We have an election coming up soon……now would be a good time to show your distaste for the policies coming out of Washington……
Just more evidence to me that the middle class is slowly evaporating in this country.
Larry, I think it is moving more quickly now than before…..
Hard times in the land of plenty. I’m not calling this a recession anymore, it’s a Depression, and looks to be around for a while.
Hansi, only the MSM sees a recession the rest of America knows it is much worse…..
There is no question that things are bad and that a lot of the statistics are shameful. But your fact #6 is the root cause of the problem and always has been. And no one is willing to have a public discourse on that issue.
Morning Thomas…….I agree and I live in one of those states….it is sad and the people are partially to blame because they will not change their leadership…it went Red in 1968 and has not look back…..a the poor keep getting poorer….