Why is hunger so young in America?
According to a recent study published in the “Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine” 49% of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point in childhood. While it might be easy to point to the current recession as the main culprit of food stamps, the study finds children’s use of food stamps consistent over a 30-year period. In a nation as rich and prosperous as the U.S. how do so many kids and families need assistance to buy basic food supplies?
According to a recent study published in the “Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine” 49% of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point in childhood. While it might be easy to point to the current recession as the main culprit of food stamps, the study finds children’s use of food stamps consistent over a 30-year period. In a nation as rich and prosperous as the U.S. how do so many kids and families need assistance to buy basic food supplies?
Guests:
Mark Rank, Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the study “Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood”
- Patt Morrison for November 4, 2009
- How Phillip Garrido got away with it…and what it says about California’s parolees
- Why is hunger so young in America?
- Do you have the One Shoe Blues?
- The Obama phenomenon, 1-year later
- Does the FDA drop the ball on drug warning labels?
- Barry Levinson’s Poliwood and its liberal elites
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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