HUNGER

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HUNGER

• WHATS FOR DINNER?
• By Katie Locke Lucas Glover (2006)

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Outline

• Why is hunger in one of the richest countries,
  the United States of America?
• Hunger Nationally Various statistics.
• -Minimum Wage
• Hunger in Pennsylvania- Various statistics.
• -Rural Pennsylvania (solutions)
• -Pilot Program (solution)
• Revisited Solutions to ending hunger nationally.
• -The Fair Minimum Wage Act
• -nutrition problem
• -The Hunger Free Commutes Act

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Hunger Nationally

• Hunger the uneasy or painful sensation caused
  by lack of food.
• Approximately 1 in 10 people are in need of food,
  including 14 million children and 854,000 homes.
• Why is hunger occurring? The Reason Only 1/3 of
  the hunger cases are investigated. Enough food
  supplied?

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Hunger Nationally

• The Second Harvest reported 36 of the people
  they fed were age 18 or younger.
• Of that 36, 42 reported that they had to choose
  between food or paying for medicine, rent or
  their bills.
• Its estimated that 49,000,000 Americans could
  be fed with the food that is frivolously wasted
  in the US.

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Hunger Nationally

• Nutrition and health care problems could be taken
  care of with about 13 billion dollars a year.
• This seems like a pretty steep price, but you
  must put it into perspective.
• Americans spend around 13 billion dollars a year
  on their pets food.
• Pets need fed along with your fellow Americans.
• This problem is not caused by a lack of food or
  money, just how the food is distributed and
  handled.

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Hunger Nationally Minimum Wage

• Another major contributor to hunger is money the
  inflation of food since 97 has increased 21 and
  gasoline 81.
• The minimum wage is 5.15/hr. A plate food at
  5.15 in 1997, would now cost 6.23 because of
  the inflation.
• The last minimum wage hike decreased the number
  of hungry people in the US.

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Hunger - Pennsylvania

• Six years ago Pennsylvania was one of the main
  leaders for low food insecurity.
• 1,400,000 Pennsylvania families went through
  every day acknowledging the possibility that
  their next meal may not be a for sure deal.
• Many of these families (which include children)
  live in rural areas and soup kitchens arent
  readily available.

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Hunger - Pennsylvania

• As many as 500,000 PA families depended of food
  cupboards in 2005. This number is 3 lower than
  previous years.
• Possible reasons
• The need is stabilizing
• The percentage of eligible people accessing this
  assistance is falling.

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Hunger Rural PA

• Solutions for reaching rural families have been
  set in motion by the Department of Agriculture.
• These solutions include State Food Purchase
  Program, Farmers Market Nutrition Program,
  Emergency Food Assistance Program Commodity
  Supplemental Food Program.

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Hunger- Rural PA

• Solutions for reaching children include
  National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast
  Program, Summer Food Service Program Child and
  Adult Care Food Program.
• These programs help children by working with the
  schools to produce low cost or free lunch or
  breakfast. But what about in the summer?

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Hunger PA Pilot

• Pennsylvania was chosen as part of a pilot
  program for reaching rural children at risk
  during the summer.
• If the state works to further its child nutrition
  programs, it could feed an additional 50,000
  children and collect 2.5 million more in federal
  funding.
• If this pilot study is successful in PA, it could
  spread nationally by lowering food insecurity in
  the US by 6 by 2010.

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Hunger Nationally - Legislation

• Two pieces of legislation that would help end
  hunger are Hunger Free Communities Act and The
  Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2005.
• The Fair Minimum Wage Act will raise the minimum
  wage to 5.85/hr sixty days after it is passed.
• In the next twelve months, it would get a raise
  again to 6.55/hr.
• Finally, within 24 months, it will receive
  another raise to 7.25/hr.

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Hunger Nationally - Legislation

• This raise in minimum wage will allow its workers
  to feed their kids and decrease the amount of
  people that must choose between food and other
  essentials.
• Also, if its raise, this will allow poverty
  stricken individuals to purchase healthier foods,
  instead of the Dollar Menu at McDonalds.
• Fast food has been linked to heart disease,
  obesity, and other digestive problems.

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Hunger Nationally - Legislation

• The Hunger Free Communities Act of 2005 will
  reduce hunger in the US by 2010 and ultimately
  lead to hunger being abolished in 2015.
• The three main components to HFCA are
• 1. Have congress eradicate hunger by 2015.
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• 2. Provide more funding for nutrition and
  federal food programs.
• 3. Finally, to help keep the hunger programs
  in tact, such as Food Stamps and school
  breakfast and lunch programs

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