Friday
This Friday, food stamp recipients will have their benefits cut. Half of those recipients are children.
Please read this article, just presented by Chris Hayes on MSNBC:
America’s new hunger crisis
By Ned Resnikoff
In the 22 years that Swami Durga Das has managed New York’s River Fund Food Pantry, he has never seen hunger like this. Each Saturday, hundreds of hungry people descend on the pantry’s headquarters, an unassuming house on a residential block. The first people arrive around 2 am, forming a line that will wrap around the block before Das even opens his doors.
“Each week there’s new people,” Das told MSNBC.com. “The numbers have just skyrocketed.”
The new clients are diverse—working people, seniors, single mothers—but many of them share something in common: they represent the millions of Americans who fell victim to food insecurity when the Great Recession hit in 2009, but didn’t benefit from the economic recovery.
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http://www.msnbc.com/all/americas-new-hunger-crisis