Statistics on Poverty and Food Wastage in America - 6 views
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Stonerook J on 11 Jan 11Includes many statistics, such as food wastage in America (over 100 billion lbs per year!) and poverty rate for children (55% for children under 6 living with a single mother!). I Found some of these statistics very surprising, but sadly, not unbelieveable.
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Carnahan H on 11 Jan 11I can't believe Americans waste about 100 billion pounds of food each year.
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Hyre A on 11 Jan 11It's hard to believe that so many people in the world's richest country aren't always able to put food on the table. it is especially sad that so many children go to bed hungry. but i'm glad there are companies out there that help the hungry and supply them with food.
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Allen C on 11 Jan 11With the amount of resources wasted here, we can feed every homeless person! We're not very considerate...
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Bloom A on 11 Jan 11wow thats really aweful how much we abuse our resources so badly, and yet not surprising like julia said
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Gonzalez A on 12 Jan 11With the knowledge that so much of our food is being wasted, I wonder if things have been put into action to help this.
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Mehl L on 12 Jan 11its amazing how unbalanced wealth is
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Magnuson A on 12 Jan 11What I found hard to swallow was that people wasted 14% of their food. That just strikes me as wasteful.
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Eyen J on 12 Jan 11I think that 20% of people in the US who request food not getting it is crazy, especially in America where we have some of the richest people in the world.
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Lide E on 12 Jan 11This article gives information on Food wasage in america. It tels how much food is wated per year and how many people would have gladly accepted it. This article also gives some statistics on poverty in the united states.
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Shockley L on 13 Jan 1135.9 million people in America live below the poverty line. About 100 billion pounds of food each year is wasted in America. Those living in poverty would gladly accept the food that would go to waste. Some families have to skip a meal or each very little becasue they can't afford to eat alot. In a house, about 14% of the food that is bought will be wasted. And around 49 million people could have been fed by that food. \nSeeing all of the wasted food and people that could use that food makes me want to find a way to save some of that food and give it to people in poverty. Also it's sad to know that there are alot of kids out there that live in poverty. If I were a parent it would be hard on me not being able to provide for my kids.