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Jim__

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2. 4% of 50 million is 2 million.
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 04:09 PM
Jan 2012

So, even accepting their numbers:

They found that, according to Census Bureau data for 2009 (the most recent year statistics are available), of the almost 50 million Americans classified as poor, 96% of the parents said their children were never hungry.


the implication is that 2 million parents said their children were hungry sometimes.

18% of 50 million is 9 million:

Eighty-three percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and 82% of poor adults said they were never hungry at any time in 2009 due to a lack of food or money.


So, even if we accept their numbers - personally I doubt their accuracy - we still have millions of hungry people.

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