While Congress cuts food stamps because they are a “waste of money”, it plans to spend $1.5 trillion on an f-15 fighter that the pentagon does not want because it has design flaws that will prevent it from being used.
And as Bernie Sanders points out,
“We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major nation on the earth with almost 20% of our children living in poverty”.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 15.8 million children under 18 are in households where they can’t get enough nutritious food necessary for a healthy life. This can result in increased vulnerability and the potential for long-term consequences.
According to Feed America:
• 15.8 million children lived in food-insecure households in 2013.
• Twenty percent or more of the child population in 38 states and D.C. lived in food-insecure households in 2013, according to the most recent data available. The District of Columbia (31%) and Mississippi (29%) had the highest rates of children in households without consistent access to food.
• In 2013, the top five states with the highest rate of food-insecure children under 18 were D.C., Mississippi, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Georgia.
• In 2013, the top five states with the lowest rate of food-insecure children under 18 were North Dakota, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
In fiscal year 2013, 44 percent of all SNAP participants were children under age 18.
But forget that.
We need unusable planes.