Schools see growing number of hungry students

[proud2BlibKansan]

After she was caught stealing fruit snacks from another little girl, the kindergartner at Meadowbrook Elementary stood before Kristen Smith.

“Why did you take the fruit snacks?” asked Smith, the Gladstone school’s community resource specialist.

“I don’t have any snacks at home,” the 5-year-old replied.

Smith asked the girl if her family had enough to eat at home.

“She basically said, ‘We hardly have any food in the cabinets,’ ” Smith said. “The reason she was stealing the fruit snacks out of the other girl’s backpack was she was hungry.”



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[Sherman A1]

1. And that tells the whole story of

why this tax package is so very wrong.

Why Bernie Sanders stood up and said what he did last week.

Why we are so truly screwed.

[DrDan]

2. how sad - no "snacks" and hardly any food certainly means little or no money for utilities

[TheKentuckian]

3. Sad story, the bottom 20% is fighting for a seemingly ever shrinking 1% of resources

The next 20% doesn't have much more to scrap among each other for.

I just don't see how anybody can look at the current picture and figure it is within an adjustment or two of okay.

People are suffering for reasons. A big one is that the pie is the pie and if you give 20% 75% and more of the total economic benefit yearly and accumulated wealth even more so, your distribution model destroys demand and contraction is inevitable.

Our economy is completely propped up by government intervention via a key to the treasury, companies slashing employees and using a buyer's market to cut compensation and benefits while driving those that remain like slave to drive up productivity levels, prolonged period of zero interest for the big players, a tax code that does not encourage investment over profit, insane deregulation, and lots of speculation and fraud.

40% of your population cannot be made to make due with 7% or less of income in the same economy where a half percent get 20% or more. That's abject poverty.

[progressoid]

4. They should be happy with whatever they get.

The economy is going to improve soon and then there will be food aplenty for all.

Or so I've been told on this board.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Then it must be true

:)

[LWolf]

6. It's criminal.

And I don't mean the child, or the parents of kids who eat breakfast at school.

That we have a society that's okay with allowing people to go hungry, that is fine with growing poverty and scapegoating those who are living in poverty, is morally criminal, in my opinion.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. +1