How Are People and the Government Helping the Poor Especially With Food? (Look at Details)?
Question by imputh: How are people and the government helping the poor especially with food? (look at details)?
there are a lot of homeless people, people that cant afford much. what are people and the government doing?
i have soup kitchens, food drives, welfare money, red cross
what other things help people- links would be nice?
i need to write a paper about some guy who said population would b more than food available vs. present day
Best answer:
Answer by Linda k
Personally I don’t think it is a shortage of food. For one thing grocery stores and restaurants throw away food instead of giving it to the poor. I think the food banks and shelters should make their needs made known to places that waste food and work something out with them rather than having food thrown away. Maybe you could call some places like food banks and shelters to get some information.
People do not like to hear this but I see it first hand
many people take someone to the grocery store and buy them food with their foodstamps in exchange for money for the drug dealer and then cry about how poor they are and don’t have food for their kids.
This is the average monthly budget in priority of my neighbors
cable 40.00
internet 60.00
phone 60.00
car payment, insurance 250.00
entertainment center from Rent A Center 120.00
electric 60.00
gas 80.00
water 40.00
broke for rest of month
sell foodstamps
cry kids are starving
http://www.hungerinamerica.org/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5023829
Answer by Cannuck
Actually food banks make their needs known, however society has been biased and fooled in to thinking that the less fortunate persons in our society are all lazy, illiterate druggies. I know first hand that this is the biggest lie yet in society!
Yes there are those that “scam the system”, but most people do not!
Most rents are around $ 5-600.00 per month
The average low income for a family of 4 or 5 is around $ 1000 per month
Rent $ 550
Food $ 450
Phone $ 35
Hydro,water $ 150
Gas, heat $ 250
Total $ 1435.00
This means that these families are coming up at the end of the month about $ 435 short. They then turn to the food banks, the generosity of their fellow human beings, only to hear insults and accusations from society!
How is a person to better their lives when they get no encouragment?
The stress and strain that these people live day in and day out is astronomical. Yet most survive and learn how to make it work. It is however hard for them to even get a job because of the stigmas that have been placed on their heads.
The food banks and the soup kitchens need our support, and the families that are struggling need our encouragment, not our persecution!
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