Originally Posted by ceejay

Hunger the third rail in the entitlement debate. Few candidates Democrat, Republican or Indepndent would even question this conventional wisdom on this particular issue because that would make them look indifferent .............

The US government spends close to $1 trillion a year providing cash, food housing medical care and services to the poor or near poor. Of that amount $111 billion is spent on food in federal and state programs. yet despite spending stories of rampart hunger persist.. In a published report last September by the Heritage Foundation researchers Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield ....found that according to the Census Bureau data for 2009 (the most recent statistics available) of the almost 50 million Americans classified as poor 96% of the parents said their children were never hungry. Eighty -three percent of poor families reported having enough to eat and 82% of poor adults said they were never hungry at anytime during 2009 due to lack of food or money

The Myth of Starving Americans by Warren Kozak, author WSJ Monday 1/30/12