25% of children in US don’t have enough food to eat

[J_J_]

Child poverty in America is at its highest point in 20 years, putting millions of children at increased risk of injuries, infant mortality, and premature death, according to a policy analysis published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

As the U.S. emerges from the worst recession since the Great Depression, 25% of children don’t have enough food to eat and 7 million kids still don’t have health insurance, the analysis says. Even worse: Five children die daily by firearms, and one dies every seven hours from abuse or neglect.

“It shouldn’t be this hard for kids to grow and thrive in the world’s richest, most powerful nation,” co-author Bruce Lesley, president of the Washington-based child advocacy organization First Focus, said in a written statement.
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The report -- co-written with Dr. Glenn Flores, professor of pediatrics at University of Texas Southwestern -- notes that although 24% of Americans are children, only 12% of the National Institutes of Health’s 2013 budget was devoted to pediatric research.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-child-poverty-20141021-story.html

[AtomicKitten]

1. America should be ashamed, but we're not.

The draconian cuts should have been vetoed.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

2. I don't believe this

Most children get sufficient calories; in fact, too many poor kids eat too many calories because they are eating the wrong kind of food. Their families are too poor to afford healthy, nutrious, fresh foods.

With food deserts in the inner cities, not enough money to buy good food, and not enough time to cook, poor people end up eating too much of the wrong kinds of food. Deaths by "malnutrition" these days are likely to be caused more by type 2 diabetes than actual lack of food.

The article is poorly written, imo, which makes it easier to ignore the real problem.

[msongs]

3. soda is not a food nt

[J_J_]

4. If ISIS was responsible for this

We might invade US

$22 Billion per year for new war in Iraq....

[econoclast]

5. Just flat untrue

The LA Times article does NOT say 1 in four children do not get enough to eat. The report in JAMA does not say that either. The OP either can't read or is deliberately extravagantly exaggerating.

What it does say is that 1-4 children live in "food-insecure households." Ok. What does that mean. A household is "food insecure" if at some point during the year these households were uncertain of having enough food to meet the needs of all members. Thats the USDA's definition, not mine.

USDA, in a study this year concluded that "in about 0.9% of households with children, one or more child experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year."

Less that one percent of households at some point in the year is bad enough....but it certainly is NOT 1 in 4 children don't get enough to eat. If that were true then the entirety of the social welfare state enacted since LBJ is an abject failure and should be scrapped because it is manifestly not doing its job. But it isn't true. Just some joker OP who can't read or has delusions of doom.

[J_J_]

6. ?

"25% of children don’t have enough food to eat" was a quote from the article