HUNGER…What is hunger?

All of us at one time or another have been hungry… Maybe even got a headache due to not eating. Hunger is not ” being hungry”, hunger is a epadimic.About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes.

• 1.02 billion people across the world are hungry.
• It is estimated that one in three Africans are malnourished

• Every year 15 million children die

• For the price of one trip two the grocery, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

• Throughout the 1990’s more than 100 million children will died from illness and starvation.

  “Highlights

  • The official poverty rate in 2007 was 12.5 percent, not statistically different from 2006.
  • In 2007, 37.3 million people were in poverty, up from 36.5 million in 2006.
  • Poverty rates in 2007 were statistically unchanged for non-Hispanic Whites (8.2 percent), Blacks (24.5 percent), and Asians (10.2 percent) from 2006. The poverty rate increased for Hispanics (21.5 percent in 2007, up from 20.6 percent in 2006).
  • The poverty rate in 2007 was lower than in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available, while statistically higher than the most recent trough in 2000 (11.3 percent).
  • The poverty rate increased for children under 18 years old (18.0 percent in 2007, up from 17.4 percent in 2006), while it remained statistically unchanged for people 18 to 64 years old (10.9 percent) and people 65 and over (9.7 percent”

  Site: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty07/pov07hi.html

~ by bassmaster2009 on September 8, 2009.