The poor of America
If I’d read it in the English-language “Iran News” which I studied on my recent trip to that country, I might have thought that it was propaganda from a fiercely anti-American regime, but the story was in the British “Guardian” and the statistics are taken from an official US Government survey.
One-sixth of the US population was found to be unable to afford enough food to stay healthy at some point last year. More than a million children regularly go to bed hungry in America.
This is the situation in the richest country on earth. This is the price of unregulated capitalism.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Go to bed hungry? I still don’t believe it. Maybe partially because that the money has been spent on single mother’s drinks/cigarettes? (Or single father, or irresponsible parents)
They should not only find the phenomena but also the reasons around it, not the far away reason of economic downturn…