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There is not a hunger issue in America, there is an obesity epidemic among the American poor. https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2011/11/20/are-o

• enraged_camel 8y ago
  This is very incorrect.
  • ralusek 8y ago
    On increasing rates of obesity: http://time.com/4980225/obesity-rates-adults-children/ http://time.com/4980225/obesity-rates-adults-children/ Association of obesity with socioeconomic status: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db50.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db50.pdf "Among women, obesity prevalence increases as income decreases." Here is what is strange, from a National Geographic article on hunger in the US: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/hunger/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/hunger/ 'It’s the same every month, Dreier says. Bills go unpaid because, when push comes to shove, food wins out. “We have to eat, you know,” she says, only the slightest hint of resignation in her voice. “We can’t starve.”' But in the very same article: "Chances are good that if you picture what hunger looks like, you don’t summon an image of someone like Christina Dreier: white, married, clothed, and housed, even a bit overweight." A bit overweight. That is not what starvation looks like. That is not what hunger looks like. We can talk all day about strategies for strengthening the social safety net, but it is simply not true that people are going hungry in the United States.