It's pretty crazy to think that in 2005, poverty would be a major issue in the US. It's crazy that just last year, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,
people already making as much as Yahoo's Terry Semel, who makes $4million a week, saw a 54% increase in their salaries, and yet millions of hard working Americans, the lowest level people who work for the aforementioned, would be having difficulty making ends meet, and would be unable to adequately feed their families. It's crazy to me, anyway. I mean, we are the "world's last Super Power" and all, so it only seems reasonable that Americans would have enough to eat, right? And yet the
Bread for the World Institute, a Xtian org that acts as a social justice lobby promoting an end to world hunger and compiles data and offers analysis on national and international nutrition statistics, put out a report on their findings on Bush's Nutrition Initiatives for Fiscal Year 2006 and shows that serious damage is being done to millions of Americans when it comes to having equal access to food resources.
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Recently released Bush Administration data illustrates that For the fourth straight year there are more people in the US are struggling to feed their families. However, careful analysis of the president's fiscal budget request shows that he proposes cuts to the food stamp program by $1 billion over the next five years. These proposed cuts come at a time when 36.3 million people, including 13.3 million children, live in homes that struggle to put food on the table. article by Carol Harvey
As our economy flounders, and more people are on the recieving end of Bushco's raw deal, we see millions of people falling into poverty each day. Millions of
working people. USDA data shows hunger and food insecurity rose from 31.0 million people in 2000 to 34.9 million people in 2002. By 2003, stats had reached 36.3 million.
In response, our congress seeks to make health care less accessible, bankruptcy less accessible, and government assistence via medicaid, medicare, SSI, food stamp and WIC programs inaccessible. On top of these affronts, Bush is seeking the $1 billion cut nation wide to the foodstamp and WIC programs, and congress has ordered a $3 billion budget cut from the USDA's budget.
Of course, we see these burdens once again being shifted to the backs of the working poor.
Taxes, healthcare cuts, housing and food access are being simultaneously forced and denied upon the poor, and it is absofuckinglutely dispicable.
When we see the richest members of our society consistently look for ways to exploit the average citizen, the time has come to take our country back. When someone can go to work, make $4 million a week while millions of other workers are not able to eat adequately, we have a huge fucking problem.