USDA: Hungry childen rose 50 percent in 2007 in US

[rhino47]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081117/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/hunger_1



WASHINGTON – New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in America at some point in 2007.

That number was up more than 50 percent from the year before and reached its highest point since 1998.

The Agriculture Department's annual survey of food security, released Monday, also shows that more than 36 million adults and children struggled against hunger last year. That's up by 700,000 since 2006. These are people who either didn't have enough money for food or access to enough food aid to maintain active healthy lives.

Almost a third of these people, or nearly 12 million, had what the government calls "very low food security." That means they had a substantial disruption in the amount of food they typically eat.

[yardwork]

1. Heckuva job, bushco.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "This is all Clinton's fault - I mean Obama's fault - Smirk" - Commander AWOL (R)

[ben_meyers]

2. "highest point since 1998"

What the hell was going on in '98? I don't recall this making news then.

[Warpy]

4. I think they pull years out of their asses

I might believe 1988, though.

[progressive_realist]

5. Well, on the bright side...

This should do something to help the childhood obesity epidemic.


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[JJ]

6. Only started in 1995

"The Federal Government has measured and reported
the extent and severity of food insecurity and hunger
in U.S. households annually since 1995"

Source: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fanrr25/fanrr25b.pdf


A fact misleadingly omitted by the AP