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Facts You Should Know About Hunger & Poverty in the U.S.  

  • More than 35 million Americans lived in food insecure households in 2005. USDA, 2006
  • Since the year 2000, the number of children living in poverty in the US has grown by 11.3% to approach 13 million. Children’s Defense Fund, 2006
  • There are 73 million children in the United States. 39%—28.6 million—live in low-income families. 17%—12.7 million—live in poor families.   National Center for Children in Poverty, 2007 Based on US Census Survey Data, 2006
  • Nearly 40% of those seeking emergency and supplemental food live in families where there is at least one full-time worker.  America ’s Second Harvest Food Bank Network, 2006
  • 12.4 million children are considered “food-insecure” – 16.9% of all children in the United States. USDA, 2006
  • An estimated 3.4 million elderly people in the U.S. live in poverty. US Census Bureau, 2005
  • On average, 23 %  of the requests for emergency food assistance are estimated to have gone unmet during the last year.  U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2006
  • In 2005, 37 million people in the U.S. were living in poverty. America ’s Second Harvest Food Bank Network, 2007
  • A family with a full-time worker earning minimum wage cannot afford fair market rent for a two bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States. HUD, 2007
  • A full time worker with two children, earning $8/hour earns $16,320/year, and this income is nearly $1000 below the poverty line.   Georgia Department of Labor, 2007

Facts You Should Know About Hunger & Poverty in Georgia:

  • Georgia is the only state where poverty has risen for the past three consecutive years. The current percentage of Georgians living at or below the poverty level is 14.4 %. U.S. Census Bureau, 2006
  • More than 1 million Georgians live in poverty (1,348,407 people). U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2006
  • 12.3 % (408,000 households) of all Georgia households live with hunger or the threat of hunger. Georgia Budget and Policy Initiative, 2007
  • 20.2% of children in Georgia live in poverty, which is higher than the national figure of 17% . U.S. Census, 2006
  • Nearly 400,000 kids in Georgia participate in the free and reduced price lunch programs in their school. Unfortunately, only about 38,000 of these kids are accessing summer feeding programs. Summer is a particularly vulnerable time for children in poverty.  USDA, 2006

Learn even more http://www.nccp.org/ - National Center for Children in Poverty

   
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