Shockingly, the report finds: "[...] that 12 percent of Americans — 35 million people — could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times."
I don't have any problems with food supply but I am not completely surprised because the the minimum wage here (in the US) is very low ($5.15, depends on the state). I don't know much about economics but minimum wage hasn't gone up in years and the prices of course have. Even if the min wage goes up I would be surprised if it went up by much.
10:54 AM, December 03, 2006
Anonymous said...
THIS IS SHOCKING! what's the minimum wage good for it people can't live from it?
8:24 AM, December 06, 2006
Chinmaya Sheth said...
Anonymous, I am not claiming someone can't live on the current min. wage (there is no data on that I am aware of) just saying its not the best it could be.
9:03 PM, December 07, 2006
The lucky citizens in the land of plenty will never again have to endure hunger. The US Department of Agriculture has replaced the condition of 'hunger' with that of 'very low food security'. Though I'd agree with Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, that 'hunger' is not a scientifically accurate term, I find the chosen alternative not so much better. I'd have said the majority of people in the so-called western civilization lives in a state of constant very low food security: one is never quite sure what it is one actually eats. Shockingly, the report finds: "[...] that 12 percent of Americans — 35 million people — could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times."
"Low Food Security"
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Shockingly, the report finds: "[...] that 12 percent of Americans — 35 million people — could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times."
I don't have any problems with food supply but I am not completely surprised because the the minimum wage here (in the US) is very low ($5.15, depends on the state). I don't know much about economics but minimum wage hasn't gone up in years and the prices of course have. Even if the min wage goes up I would be surprised if it went up by much.
10:54 AM, December 03, 2006
THIS IS SHOCKING! what's the minimum wage good for it people can't live from it?
8:24 AM, December 06, 2006
Anonymous, I am not claiming someone can't live on the current min. wage (there is no data on that I am aware of) just saying its not the best it could be.
9:03 PM, December 07, 2006