14% of U.S. households struggle to put food on the table
By Jordan Malter, CNN Money
Last year, 17.4 million households struggled to put food on the table.
That means 14 perent of households either experienced a reduced quality of diet or disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its annual food security report.
That percentage is ‘essentially unchanged’ from 2013, the USDA said. This is despite the fact that the economy improved overall during that time period, with the unemployment rate falling from 8 percent in January 2013 to 5.6 percent by the end of 2014, when the USDA conducted its survey.
Meaningless BS with over 50 million on food stamps.
Also, how many are illegals or legal immigrants?
This economy had sucked since 2008, there is zero chance of anyone getting a decent paying job if your past forty!
Many of us white aging work force are forced into a questionable early retirement, many of us have already loss everything and there is no bouncing back, it only gets worse the older you get. Who would of ever thought that this great country would come down to this?! There is no more work to be had for the aging work force!
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I think the “recovery” from the “Great Recession” placed a whole lot of emphasis on the financial recovery and well-being of large corporations and businesses and little if any importance on the citizens of this country. I believe that the “trickle-down” effect from high paid CEOs and politicians is actually their urinating on our feet while they laugh all the way to the banks that the tax-paying citizens bailed out. There may be a job for the average aging worker if they’re willing to accept minimum wage or something near that amount but almost anything that would pay a living wage is filled by someone newly out of college that costs a whole lot less than someone with an education and experience. I don’t think experience is valued or considered particularly important anymore, and if the first inexperienced young hire doesn’t work out they just go on to the next fresh face.
One of the more difficult aspects of aging is being so devalued.
Spouse – 4-mer-usmc
The older you get it is harder if not impossible to find work and pay your bills. What was once considered a ” comfortable retirement ” is now a thing of the past. Sad.
Save your money,controll spending and watch how the cookie crumbles. It may not be in your favor .
Be safe and be careful, OLS
There are things that are growing, one is the national debt, another is welfare and SSI and people who number nearly a 100 million out of the work force and on those programs, the other is the central and local governments and the jobs for those agencies. And also the number of those illegally entering the country and not leaving and the tens of thousands of refugees being brought in without the consent of the people. These are very troubling times that require new leadership and a return to nationalism and stopping the decline of the country.
Justice you are a man(?) born in the wrong time and place. Many of your ideas sound eerily like some which were fashionable in Nazi Germany.
hmmmm: You don’t get it. Keep paying your ever increasing taxes so the lazy and addicts can have FREE money….to put into their snorting/injecting habits. If you can’t see what is happening…keep your head in the sand OR be a “Bubble Boy”. Scumbags will always be scum.
But don’t forget YOUR governor wants a $750 million train to nowhere. Yet he insists on a $65 gas tax to fix roads he has already said other moneys would take care of.
I see LIAR LIAR
Another Horses a$$ is seen
Kits, really? Then why is it that the seven states that passed a law mandating drug tests for welfare recipients found that out of a total in all seven states of 216,744 folks THAT were tested only 427 recipients tested positive.
And Kits since from your comments I’m worried you’re not quite capable of doing this math, so I did it for you. That equals .20%. And just so you REALLY understand, that’s POINT TWO ZERO PERCENT, NOT 20%!
Oh, I’m sorry Bigger…I forgot you were there. You may go now.
Yep, that’s what I thought Kits.
Silly facts, they always seem to get in your way.
You got nothing. At least you’re consistent. Consistently WRONG!
Since ‘scumbags will always be scum’….why don’t you stop pussyfooting round and say what you really think…that we should put the poor, the crazy, the addicted, the abused in labor camps and then shoot them when they fall down from starvation(or some less humane fate).
By your analogy, a-holes will always be a-holes-here’s looking at you, brown-eyes.