U.S. kids are hungry
In a stark and surprising finding, about half the children in the United States will be on food stamps at some point during their childhood, a new study of 29 years of data shows.
One in three white children and 90 percent of all black children – ages 1 through 20 – will use the food stamps program, according to research, published this month in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine…
The finding that 50 percent of children will be on food stamps in their lifetime is conservative, Thomas A. Hirschl, a sociology professor at Cornell University and a coauthor of the study with Mark R. Rank, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis, said.
That’s because only about 60 percent of households eligible for food stamps actually get them, a finding backed up by the newly released Department of Agriculture study. Stigma and ignorance of the program hold people back, he said.
How can we, as a country, let this happen when billion dollar bonuses are being paid on Wall Street?
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