Childhood Hunger in the United States
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-07-22/childhood-hunger-united-states
One in four American children do not have enough to eat and that number is on the rise. President Obama pledged to end childhood hunger in the U.S. by 2015. A discussion about how new private and public partnerships might help eliminate childhood hunger in America.
Guests
Bill Shore
Founder and Executive Director of Share Our Strength, a non-profit organization working to end childhood hunger in the United States.
Margaret McKenna
President of The Wal-Mart Foundation.
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor of Colorado
Blanche Lincoln
U.S. Senator from Arkansas
Martin O'Malley
Governor of Maryland
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The is a very important issue that involves access to healthy foods and access to healthy spaces. If there isn't a grocery story nearby and you can't play outside because the streets are too dangerous, then is it any wonder we have obese children suffering with adult diseases?
Sadly, O'Malley was recently sued by a citizen's advocacy group and is now under federal court order due to horrific delays in food stamp applications AND was one of four states to be fined by the federal government for problems with the food stamp system. Not to mention that he had how many years as mayor and now governor to bring grocery stores to Baltimore? This is not someone to listen to.
I wish they had interviewed Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the new mayor of Baltimore who appointed the country's first food czar, focused on bringing healthy foods to the city. That's called action, not ambition.
Oh! NOW you want the government to step in and fix this, eh???
Where are all the loudmouths who yell "less government" now?
Look at which states have these hungry children....
Colorado... Louisiana... Arkansas...
States which are either dominated by libertarians or conservatives.
Personal freedom --"Every man for himself" and voluntary charities apparently doesn't work well in large societies. So just imagine if public government schooling was eliminated as well; you would have the exact same conditions 100 years ago in the deep south... a vast uneducated and hungry population with a small wealthy elite on top. Kind of like a third world.
And the programs that do help largely are government programs!
So where are the people who promote "voluntary charities" now? Even Colorado and its governor which ignored government programs had to apply for them in the end to stave off hunger in kids.
Now they're scambling to RE-AUTHORIZE child nutrition programs, re-installing programs that apparently have been scrapped in the past... apparently, voluntary charities aren't enough.
Jamie Oliver's show highlights something fascinating; deep in the heart of America, people are kept ignorant by industry and "special interests".
When you look at demographics, these are states dominated by libertarian and conservative thinking.
Nobody wants to admit this, but go look --there it is.
They blame hollywood for their lack of moral fiber--not their bad parenting.
They blame immigrants for their lack of jobs but won't take the jobs Mexicans take --jobs provided by their fellow Americans --usually some fat cat who practices "free market" economics by paying low wages.
They blame the government for their lack of everything else but they are the ones on foodstamps, social security and medicare.
They blame everyone.... but themselves.
this is about kids being hungrey right? not so much what they eat but not having enough to eat . I think it is very sad no one in the united states should have to go hungry children or adults. We have suppermarkets that throw out food every day because of some kind of insuance thing . stupid !!but also if we can stop things like giving some one millions of dollars for doing a bad job like when they roune a compeny (golden parashoot) we could use that kind of money for better things then rewarding some one for a bad job.
you are so rite sashahasani.