Unprecedented poverty. New childhood hunger guidelines

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/23/doctors-child-patients-hunger-food-pediatricians

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Doctors should screen all their child patients for hunger, a national association of US pediatricians advised on Friday.

This is the first time the American Academy of Pediatrics has made such a recommendation, and the US secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack is expected to tout the new policy on Monday.

About 16 million children in the US live in households that struggle to put food on the table consistently, the AAP found in an examination of data from 2014. The US Department of Agriculture released data in September showing that the number of children getting enough food to stay healthy was at its highest since 2007. Numbers dipped drastically during the recession years, particularly in 2011, said Sarah Schwarzenberg, one of the policy statement’s lead authors.

But “it could be much higher”, Schwarzenberg said, referring to the number of children who receive an adequate amount of food.

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1. It could, and should.......

be all.

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2. No surprise

According to a report issued by the Social Security Administration, yesterday, 38% of Americans earn less than $20,000 a year. 51% earn less than $30,000 a year. 71% earn less than $50,000 a year.
Based on their report 99.92% of people earn less than a million dollars a year.

On the other side of it, that .08% (yes, point zero eight percent) suck up 53% of all wages earned in America.