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As I said, I don’t know the UK context. In the US context, I went to a pretty destitute public schooling system and we provided breakfast, lunch, and (to a limi
by whimsicalism 11mo ago
As I said, I don’t know the UK context. In the US context, I went to a pretty destitute public schooling system and we provided breakfast, lunch, and (to a limited subset) dinner - plus there is SNAP/EBT.
> I know families with three kids to a room smaller than the one my youngest fills with books.
Housing is much more of an issue for the very poor, at least in the US. But I don’t agree that it has gotten relatively worse on a large timescale.
- drekk 11mo agoI volunteer my time with Food Not Bombs. 20% of American children do not know where their next meal is coming from. Many are simultaneously overweight and malnourished, because the foodstuffs the US government subsidizes are calorically dense but nutritionally destitute. Food banks, subsidized school meals, and SNAP/EBT prevent what would otherwise be children starving to death. As it stands though, the relief is insufficient. Many children from food insecure households have stunted growth and lifelong learning impairments from insufficient protein, calcium, etc. Source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
- peppersghost93 11mo agoYou should consider touring Appalachia, especially eastern Kentucky. The poverty there will make you think you're in a third world country. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2018/06/contempt-poor-us-drives-cruel-policies-says-un-expert?LangID=E&NewsID=23172 https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2018/06/contempt-poo... I grew up in this area. My parents didn't have electricity until they were teenagers. (I'm 32 for reference.)