Report: At least 1 in 4 families couldn't afford food in the last year(OH)

[OhioChick]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Thursday August 11, 2011 1:48 PM

More than 1 in 4 Ohio families with children did not have enough money to buy food in the past 12 months, says a new report that shows growing despair in the sinking economy.

Ohio ranked 20th in the nation for food hardship and is home to seven of the 100 most troubled metropolitan areas; only one state had more.

The Youngstown-Warren-Boardman area ranked 3rd in the nation with a third of its households with children responding “yes” when asked: “Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?”

Following Youngstown was Dayton at 20th and Columbus at 31st.


Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/08/11/ohioans-who-cant-afford-food-is-growing-problem-report-shows.html

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Food insecurity in more than one quarter of households? That's a really bad sign.

Ohio is in a deep recession.

[marions ghost]

2. One blog response says

"I bet they all have cable TV. Priorities?" Such lack of understanding and compassion is everywhere these days.

It is unbelievable that 1 in 4 families in Ohio would be struggling to eat.

[cutlassmama]

3. doubtful they have cable if they can't eat. Cable is one of the first things to go.

[marions ghost]

4. Yeah they won't get to watch the Kardashians.

n/t

[Beartracks]

5. Spoken like a true ignoramus.

No, not you, m's ghost; the responder. :)


"I bet they all have cable TV"??? So, wait a sec -- you don't really KNOW? It's just a hunch?

"Don't bother me with facts," goes the subtext of his statements, "since I couldn't be be bothered to find any myself. But it's okay, I just know these things."

Wow, what a savant. :eyes: This is why the word "moran" was invented.

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[barbtries]

9. it's the cruelty inherent in the statement

that really, really troubles me. we've become a very MEAN nation. :(

[No Elephants]

10. Again.

[marions ghost]

13. I see it everywhere I go

and it makes me so depressed. This mean-ness is tearing the country apart and so many opportunities for progress in every arena of life are lost. Where would we be if we were not so artificially divided, insular, competitive, irritable, & fearful of losing something every minute?

[madrchsod]

6. "living on a thin line....

tell me now,what are we supposed to do..."

from 40 years ago to today the kinks lyrics are still relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvdBrbJnve8&feature=related

[russspeakeasy]

7. They should all go to boners house for dinner...

he has probably got a pantry full...

[DBoon]

8. and Republicans think starving more people will create jobs

nt

[No Elephants]

11. Too bad. Tell it to Charles Dickens. We're all about the plutonomy now.

Didn't you get the memo?

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/plutonomy-1.pdf

Sorry, but I can no longer link you to Part 2 of the memo, written in 2006.


"In January of this year I wrote a third post on Citigroup’s Plutonomy reports which they wrote in 2005 and 2006. Copies of those reports were on several sites across the Internet. I also provide a copy at CPS News. In my post I said that Citigroup was going to great efforts to remove those two reports from the Internet, and that I would not be surprised if we were threatened with legal action if the reports were not removed. Today I received such notice.

Instead of notifying me directly, Citigroup contacted my web host. My host notified me via email with a copy of the letter they had received from Citigroup, and had no option except to require me to take the reports down. I have complied with the directive; therefore the reports are no longer available at CPS News.

With the financial crash of 2008 of which Citigroup was a big part of and required a taxpayer bailout to the tune of $45 billion-plus in order to survive, you can understand why Citigroup wants them off the Internet. It’s all about trying to rewrite their history.

If you’re not familiar with the reports, they are easily summed up. One was called “Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer” and the other was “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances”. From other reports it appears that Citigroup wrote those two documents for their investors, bragging about how well things were going and implying that the US was no longer a Democracy but a Plutonomy."

http://www.cps-news.com/2011/06/15/citigroup-plutonomy-reports-no-longer-available-at-cps-news/


Message board posters know better, though: the two political parties in the U.S. are very different from each other.

You can decide for yourself if you want a sarcasm icon after that statement or not.

[primavera]

14. Thank you!!!

I've been looking all over for this ever since I heard that it was becoming increasingly hard to find. I can't believe a document of this importance is disappearing, I feel like we ought to post a bunch of copies around the internet so it's always available.

[IamK]

12. Thats around the national average reported by that group...

http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/food-hardship-by-state-2010/

buts its a little like Exxon reporting the price of gas is a little low....

[sarcasmo]

15. I would bet the number is the same in Michigan and many other states.