German ad is now trolling America… for 1 in 6 Americans (49 million) go hungry. It’s been true for a long time—➡️ we pay trillions to defense contractors but can’t spare change to help feed kids—especially healthy foods that aren’t junk or cause diabetes.
2) Whether or not the ad is just a trolling ad is besides the point — the scale of food insecurity in America is real.
📌One in four faced food insecurity in America’s year of hunger, investigation shows.
amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…
📌One in four faced food insecurity in America’s year of hunger, investigation shows.
amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…
3) “Hunger – defined as not having enough to eat sometimes or often during the previous week – has been reported between 19% and 29% of Black households with children over the course of the pandemic. This compares with 7% to 14% of white American families.
4) “Latino families have experienced the second highest rates of hunger, ranging from 16% to 25% nationally.”
5) “Racial disparities varied across states: Black families in Texas reported hunger at four times the rate of white families in some weeks, as did Latinos in New York.
Overall, hunger declined sharply last month, but is falling far slower for people of color.
Overall, hunger declined sharply last month, but is falling far slower for people of color.
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