Child Hunger In US Rose 50 Percent In 2007

News Net:

New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year before to mark the highest point since 1998. And that's even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.

The department's annual report on food security showed that during 2007 the number of children who suffered a substantial disruption in the amount of food they typically eat was more than double the 430,000 in 2006 and the largest figure since 716,000 in 1998.

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[iPolitics]

Bush vetoed s bipartisan bill to give kids healthcare

[AmandaBC]

$700 billion to bail out the f_at cats.
Nothing for starving children.

USA! USA!

[AmandaBC]

$700 billions to bail out the fat cats.
Nothing for starving children.

USA! USA!

[DavidATolucaLake]

In a country where food is so adundant that it we play games with it on cooking shows.

And under the dogma of the Republican Party children under the age of ten should be taught fiscal responsibility. Sick.

Yet Wall Street excecutives are allowed to get a tax write off for high priced tickets to sporting events and $100 steak dinners.

Great family "values".

[AHockeyMom]

Maybe the Mormon Church should be fighting hunger rather than gay marriage.

[tomas0808]

What a great nation we are, no?

Following repub theory, they must be starving because they've been bad

[MountainMarge]

CALL TO ACTION!!! DONATE TO YOUR LOCAL FOODBANK TODAY!!

[Querent]

This is horrible. I'm going to give some money to Feed the Children out of my next paycheck. These children may not be yours or mine, but they are OURS in a real sense. We as a society owe them access to enough food.

[brooklyncitizen]

Under Bush the USA became schizophrenic like India...on the one hand a technologically advanced
Western nation on the other hand rampant poverty and starvation. Part of Bush's war on poverty (yes he did have one) was to get the single mothers to marry their kids' father....brilliant.The other tactic was to rebrand hunger and starvation as "pantry insecurity".

[yellowcockroachdemocrat]

The real tragedy is that for years, there have been an alarming increase of fat and obese children who are starving - not getting nutritional value - yet they eat plenty. They suffer silently and can't get the proper help.

[Balzac]

Bush hates freedom, hates America, hates children.

America hates Bush and his cronies.

[darthdarcy]

American infant mortality is also way up..!

[dobberdoss]

Welcome to the "forth world" America. That being the definition of a perceived "rich country" where poverty is on every street corner.

[AWAKEONE]

Ah yes!


But no child was left behind!

[PhilipTaylor]

Put the list by state on a website like BarackObama.com and ask for donations! Like they are doing for FIRES!

[dadw5boys]

The more Free Trade the more hunger !

[darthdarcy]

That's right, dadw5boys....