US mayors’ report: Hunger and Homelessness Intensify in US Cities By Debra Watson 12/31/07 "WSW" - - The number of people hungry and homeless in US cities rose dramatically again in 2007, according to the annual report on hunger and homelessness from the US Conference of Mayors. The 23-city Hunger and Homelessness Survey was released in late December. Requests for emergency food increased in four of every five cities. Among 15 cities with quantifying data, the median increase in requests for food was 10 percent and in some cities it was much higher. Detroit and some other cities reported seeing more working poor among those seeking food. In Detroit, emergency food requests shot up 35 percent over the 12-month period ending in October. Officials there noted that “due to a lack of resources, emergency food assistance facilities have had to reduce the number of days and/or hours of operation.” Thirteen of 19 survey cities reported they could not meet the demand for emergency food. Los Angeles was one of the major cities reporting difficulties in serving the growing need. An official in LA said: “Emergency food assistance facilities have to turn away people. According to the LA Regional Foodbank, over 30 percent of their food pantries have had to turn clients away and pantries that don’t turn clients away are providing less food. “In 2002, a food pantry would provide an average of eight to ten different USDA commodities per distribution. This holiday season, food pantries are providing three USDA commodities. Food pantries are tasked to serve more clients with the same amount of resources they had six years ago. Twenty-one percent of overall demand for emergency food assistance goes unmet.” Across all cities, an average of 15 percent of families with children looking for emergency food must be turned away. Nine in 10 of the cities sampled for details on the urban hunger crisis say they expect increases in food requests next year. City officials said specific factors exacerbating hunger over the past year were the foreclosure crisis, the high prices of food and gasoline, and the lack of affordable housing. Decreased social benefits such as public assistance and the eroding value of food stamps were also listed as particularly acute problems. Lack of donated food and commodities and insufficient funding were listed as the most important reason for turning away the hungry. Economic issues such as unemployment and poverty along with high housing and medical costs were most cited by responding cities as the major causes of chronic hunger. Substance abuse and mental illness were the least cited.
Criminal aliens are taxing the food pantries beyond capacity. They come here illegally, steal ID's and Social Security numbers, steal medical/dental services, steal education, ruin neighborhoods, fill jails, and are pulling the country down the toilet.
It's all soooooo convenient, isn't it, sandy? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! God tells christians to be kind to foreigners, citing the experience the jews had in egypt. You, instead of taking the hard road and trying to help them, conveniently blame them for all the problems of your country. How anti-christian of you.... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I do not think Sandy cliams to be a Christian. Her idea is exploit people to the fullest extent of the law. When the place craps out, move to where you can exploit more. It is the Greed...Greed...and nothing but the Greed! Real Sandy could be just the opposite....may be wants to be confrontational....then again who knows!
here its because a lot of the jobs are going to China. People are getting their homes foreclosed on left and right, and I don't think it has a thing to do with illegals. The company I used to work for closed and the one previous to that had massive lay-offs.
Most people are homeless because they have untreated mental illnesses or they have mental disabilities. Not because they are lazy or drug addicts (very rarely). Why shouldn't they be given the proper treatment to try to make it in society?
Alien percentage is very low on everything except the ID part. It is not that difficult to check the ID of a person. The bill collectors do it very well. Everybody is in Intellisearch.
Jobs go overseas and to illegals who work for less pay. Social workers paid by the government push illegal immigrants and poor Americans to food pantrys which are in sorry shape from the flow of unwashed masses.
