soc211 poverty and hunger :: Blog :: Hunger and Poverty

I found my information from The Power to end Hunger Results. You can get it on line at Http://www.org/website/article.asd?id=350. The article mentions that the minimum wage has not been raised since 1997. The number of people without health insurance rose by 8000,000 in 2004 to 45.8 million. Many factors contribute to hte persistance of hunger and povery in this nation, including low wages, lack of access to saftey-net programs like child care and Food Stamps, inability to take advantage of most tax benefits aimed at middle- and upper-income households, and a lack of opportunity to accumulate savings and other assests.

Yes I believe that the refernce I found is reasonable. And I believe that it does support the notion that the problem assigned to me is really a problem.