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Title: Survey: 61% of U.S. Teachers Buy Food for Hungry Students
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URL Source: http://morallowground.com/2011/02/2 ... -buy-food-for-hungry-students/
Published: Feb 23, 2011
Author: Moral Low Ground
Post Date: 2011-02-25 10:13:02 by Godwinson
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Views: 13494
Comments: 26
Survey: 61% of U.S. Teachers Buy Food for Hungry Students Posted on February 23, 2011 A new survey of 638 US public school teachers has shed light on how our education system is dealing with the national epidemic of childhood hunger. With 1 out of every 6 Americans living in poverty (nearly half of all black children are poor) and with 1 out of every 7 of us relying upon government food assistance, it’s no secret that we’ve got a major problem with childhood hunger. But numbers and statistics can only tell us so much. Our nation’s teachers often find themselves on the front lines of the battle against childhood hunger and what they tell us, combined with numbers and statistics, paints a pretty alarming picture. According to the survey and USA Today, two-thirds of the teachers (grades K-8) surveyed said they had students who regularly came to school hungry. Nearly the same number (63%) said that they problem has gotten worse over the past year. The problem is truly nationwide. “It’s really telling to see how severe the problem is,” Bill Shore, founder and director of Share Our Strength, a non-profit organization fighting childhood hunger, told USA Today. “It’s not isolated to certain urban and rural areas… it’s really happening across the board.” Nearly two-thirds (65%) of the teachers surveyed said that many children depend on meals served by schools as their main source of nutrition. A shocking 61% said they themselves bought food to serve to hungry students. Former Florida elementary school teacher Stacey Frakes says kids in her classes would sit with their heads down on their desks, nearly in tears from the hunger that tormented their little bellies. She kept simple snacks to feed them because learning was close to impossible when “they are thinking about their next good meal,” she said. According to USA Today, 11.6 million children across the country are fed school breakfast every day, with 74% of the meals served at no cost to the student. There is a record demand for these school meals, and in some locales nearly all students from low-income homes are enrolled in breakfast programs. Still, many kids don’t take advantage of breakfast programs because they arrive at school to late or because of the stigma attached to “welfare” by a society that scorns the poor and counts personal financial success as a more noble value than helping people in need. Until that changes, the richest country in the world will continue to have to deal with increasing numbers of children who don’t have enough to eat.
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#1. To: Godwinson (#0)
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The only reason a poor kid in the U.S. is hungry is if his welfare mom trades the family food stamps for crack, booze, & cigarettes.
What happened to the obesity epidemic The First Lunch Lady is waging war on?
Of course. As a teacher, if you don't become radical, you're not doing your job right. 8D When I fed the children, they treated me like a hero. When I asked why the children were hungry, they treated me like a terrorist. 8D
Why are you not praising the teachers for helping these kids? Why are conservatives who claim to love Jebus really atheistic social darwinists?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Obesity is starvation. The body is craving nutrition while sugar/fat/salt are used as substitutes. Which is why the military is desperate to put in nutrition programs. Fat assed toothless kids can't fight. ;}
USA: Wisconsin Unions Preparing a General Strike Written by David May Good luck on getting the Nat Guard in there. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Because junk food is cheap - people trade off eating obesity causing food. Mark Hyman, MD, Practicing physician The Link Between Poverty, Obesity and Diabetes Not having enough food to eat may cause obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Most of us think the chronic disease epidemic is fueled by abundance, but it may be fueled as much by food scarcity and insecurity as it is by excess. And, right now, America is suffering from the highest levels of poverty and food insecurity that it has seen in more than a decade. Processed foods have become cheaper as real food grows more expensive. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that between 1985 and 2000 the retail price of carbonated soft drinks rose by 20 percent, fats and oils by 35 percent, and sugars and sweets by 46 percent. Compare that to the 118 percent increase in the retail price of fresh fruits and vegetables. In fifteen years the price of vegetables ballooned six times as fast as the cost of sugary, calorie-rich, nutrient-poor sodas. This is further compounded by the fact that in some communities in America, the only place to buy food is a local convenience store where fruits, vegetables, or other whole, fresh, real foods cannot be found. Without a car in an urban setting you may have to walk miles to find anything resembling real food. Social factors like these set the stage for the epidemics of obesity and disease we are facing. This in combination with the nature of human metabolism put our nation's poor in a trap from which it is very difficult to escape.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Do people here actually believe that TPTB, the Top 50 000, just one day up and GAVE people the right to Collectively Bargain? That just magically waving a wand will stop this? Which is why I LOVE history. You're gonna learn it. Or you're gonna repeat it. Until you do. 8D
More Leftwing loony logic, just like Global Warming blizzards. You people are a hoot.
Why would you expect a group of people that deny evolutionary science, climate science etc be able to understand biology, nutritional science?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
They're just enabling the parents to feel good about spending the kids food stamps on crack and booze. "See, staying stoned is cool, my kid's are well taken care of by their bleeding heart retard teachers". That's not helping the kids, their parents, or society in general in the long run.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... That your cousin? Or sister. ;} or both!!! 3:25pm Reports of heavy gun-fire in various Tripoli districts - Fashloum, Ashour, Jumhouria, Souq Al Jouma.
The problem is that facts are irrelevant, history is yesterday. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. And they will be repeating.
These people just get to a certain point where they have to admit they're on a one way st. or they can do a Masada. Their call. "Wow, that’s not at all the egomaniacal rantings of a man who just told a porn star at gun point to pour coke directly into his eyes. He sounds entirely sober. But on a realistic note, explain to me – in people logic – how pulling the show off the air puts money into his “family’s” pockets because that’s exactly what Charlie Sheen just did. And if it isn’t, then he truly is Jesus Christ and maybe all that talk of Him knocking up a hooker wasn’t so crazy after all. It’s a good day to be Dan Brown. UPDATE: And here’s the official CBS statement: Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros. Television have decided to discontinue production of “Two and a Half Men” for the remainder of the season.” Photo: Getty
Bullshit - things like rice, beans and chicken are still quite cheap as compared to a $3 bag of chips or a $2 dollar bottle of Pepsi. The reason the welfare moms are poisoning their kids is because they can't be bothered cooking because they are to busy with cable tv, internet, and cell phones.
It's all capitalism so it's all good.
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"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Why does news like this anger these guys? I mean they freak out about it it seems - either to deny it or to belittle it. I am guessing such statistics attack this narrative they have of the world so they need to either dispel it or downplay it.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
"Food stamp benefits average only about one dollar per person per meal (to be precise, the figure is $1.05 in 2007). In addition, as a result of benefit cuts enacted as part of the 1996 welfare law, the purchasing power of most households’ food stamp benefits is eroding in value each year. In 2008, food stamp benefits for a typical working parent with two children will be about $37 a month lower than they would have been without the across-the-board benefit cuts included in the 1996 law. By 2017, the average benefit reduction from those provisions will reach almost $45 a month in 2008 dollars. (See figure 1.) In fact, by 2017 a typical working parent of two will, over the course of a year, miss out on more than one and a half months-worth of food stamps, compared to the amount of benefits she or he would have received under the law in place prior to 1996. Under current rules, this lost ground will never be recovered." You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
It is clear to me the right wing does not read, listen or watch any news. They live in a world of ignorance reinforced by talking heads - classic echo chamber. Global rice squeeze hitting U.S. consumers. Costs increase, Costco, Sam's limit purchases The riots we are seeing around the world for democracy, etc are started by food riots - Tunisia's came about because of an increase in prices for food. When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" Rev 6:5-7 Black as in "in the black" is the color of capitalism.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
And the world' largest grower of wheat....China..... has received exactly one half inch of rain in it's largest wheat growing region since September.With a forecast of more of the same. Things are just beginning to warm up so to speak.
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Oh - so you are saying the so-called "poor" eating crappy junk is a new thing because staples are now a bit more expensive? You know and I know these lowlifes would still eat junk food if nutritious unprepared food were given away. Why have the so called "poor" eaten crap my whole lifetime regardless of relative cost. Deal with reality, commie - you'll sleep better. NEXT!
Russia's wheat woes could hit U.S. grocery shelves Reporting from Los Angeles and Moscow — The price of America's daily bread and meat could soar this fall, as surging wheat prices in anticipation of a Russian ban on exports stoked fears about tight supplies. Grain shortages and food price hikes in 2007 and 2008 sparked riots worldwide, but agriculture analysts said the U.S. wheat crop has been strong, and that stockpiles of wheat and other grains worldwide are greater now than they were three years ago.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Jesus will remember you. And he will repay you in kind. The end is coming soon for you.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
You know and I know these lowlifes would still eat junk food if nutritious unprepared food were given away. Why have the so called "poor" eaten crap my whole lifetime regardless of relative cost. Deal with reality, commie - you'll sleep better. A lot of junk and prepared foods appear to be actually addicting. Somehow I think it's possible not all ingredients are being listed. There's a lot of leeway in the natural and articial flavor category, plus it now seems that Aspertame with it's KNOWN cancer causing and addicting qualities (God bless Rumsfeld's pea pickin' heart) is being added to everything. But it's all in the name of making money so it's all good.
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That's a lie. There's been a drought followed by severe cold. Unprotected wheat gets damaged. And marginal wheat land is being planted to other crops. Like corn. "stockpiles of wheat and other grains worldwide are greater now than they were three years ago." Another lie. And I'll need to see those numbers before I respond with my own. Thank you. The cupboard is bare.
#2. To: Godwinson (#0)
our education system is dealing with the national epidemic of childhood hunger
#3. To: Godwinson (#0)
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#1)
#5. To: Happy Quanzaa (#2)
What happened to the obesity epidemic The First Lunch Lady is waging war on?
#6. To: Godwinson (#0)
#7. To: Happy Quanzaa (#2)
What happened to the obesity epidemic The First Lunch Lady is waging war on?
#8. To: All (#6)
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#5)
Obesity is starvation.
#10. To: Happy Quanzaa, mcgowanjm (#9)
#11. To: Godwinson (#4)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
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#12. To: Happy Quanzaa (#9)
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#13. To: Godwinson (#10)
Why would you expect a group of people that deny evolutionary science, climate science etc be able to understand biology, nutritional science?
#14. To: Godwinson (#10)
#15. To: Godwinson (#7)
Because junk food is cheap - people trade off eating obesity causing food.
#16. To: Sleepy Floyd (#15)
Bullshit - things like rice, beans and chicken are still quite cheap as compared to a $3 bag of chips or a $2 dollar bottle of Pepsi.
#17. To: Sleepy Floyd (#15)
Processed foods have become cheaper as real food grows more expensive. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that between 1985 and 2000 the retail price of carbonated soft drinks rose by 20 percent, fats and oils by 35 percent, and sugars and sweets by 46 percent. Compare that to the 118 percent increase in the retail price of fresh fruits and vegetables. In fifteen years the price of vegetables ballooned six times as fast as the cost of sugary, calorie-rich, nutrient-poor sodas.- Dr. Mark Hyman, MD, Practicing physician
#18. To: Rek, mcgowanjm (#16)
#19. To: Happy Quanzaa (#1)
The only reason a poor kid in the U.S. is hungry is if his welfare mom trades the family food stamps for crack, booze, & cigarettes.
#20. To: Sleepy Floyd, mcgowanjm (#15)
Bullshit - things like rice, beans and chicken are still quite cheap
#21. To: Godwinson (#20)
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When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" Rev 6:5-7
#22. To: Godwinson (#20)
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#23. To: Rek, mcgowanjm (#21)
#24. To: Sleepy Floyd (#22)
Why have the so called "poor" eaten crap my whole lifetime regardless of relative cost. Deal with reality, commie - you'll sleep better.
#25. To: Sleepy Floyd (#22)
Oh - so you are saying the so-called "poor" eating crappy junk is a new thing because staples are now a bit more expensive?
#26. To: Godwinson (#23)
but agriculture analysts said the U.S. wheat crop has been strong
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