- 31 million people are in a household that are in the risk of hunger.
- 3% of US families experience famine.
- 7% of US families qualify for emergency food which is when the government gives them food because they can't afford it.
- 2.7 million children live in households that can not afford food.
- 9.4 million children live in households that qualify for emergency food.
- The government made the idea to make a Food Stamp program in which people would donate food for the needy.
- Since 1994 the number of participants have steadily decreased.
- It was 1/3 of the program.
- In 1999 Catholic Charities USA said that people participating in the emergency food program increased 32%.
- Americas Second Harvest 23.3 million people turned to the agencies for the nations largest network of food banks.
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In the year 2000, some 793 million people are unable to get food for themselves, in which 31 million are in the United States. So far, the only way this umber has decreased is when some 24,000 people die each year from famine. Out of all these people, 160 million are children. Hungry people tend to only spend about $1 a day on food. Out of all these people, about 70% are women. Most of these people do not have shelter and 1.3 billion don't have access to clean water. Scientists say that if all food were distributed equally, every person in the U.S. and the world would receive 2,500 calories a day.
