These following is an excerpt from an extensive article that I recommend you all link to so that you can read the full details (link at the bottom). The story was researched by truthout.org, a email news service that I highly recommend to anybody who aspires to be informed about social justice issues without getting any political "spin"."Meanwhile, the number of people seeking food assistance for the first time was up in all 21 cities with data on the issue, and was "particularly notable among working families stressed by the increase in food prices and the slowdown in the economy," the report said.
Officials in Philadelphia told the survey that "new people coming to food cupboards are people that are employed with children.
"With food prices increasing as much as 30 percent and incomes either staying the same or decreasing, it is impossible for them to feed their families," the report said.
When asked to identify the three main causes of hunger, 83 percent of cities cited poverty, 74 percent cited unemployment and 57 percent cited the high cost of housing."
The issue of poverty in America has now grown beyond the typical scenarios that we all think of when we see a panhandler on the street corner. It is also happening in a time when grant makers have seen their corpus funds drop in value if they were based on real estate or the stock market.
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