A mother with a low paying job, two children, and a wonderful husband picked her son up from his after-school babysitter's house on a beautiful, sunny day after a long day at work. Her son was bouncing up and down like a ball of joy as he explained his day at school to his mother while they walked to her 1989 Dodge mini-van to head home. On their way there, the scent of fields of harvested grain and the noise of people passing by with haste to get home to see their families drowned out the sound of the worn speakers as they played a collection of songs of the late 1990’s. That inducing smell was quickly overcome by the unexpected stench of gasoline that smothered the woman and her son as they entered their house. The boy went upstairs as his mother instructed, while she walked into the garage to see where that unpleasant odor was coming from. The boy waited at the top of the stairs impatiently to see what the smell was, when suddenly the most horrifying scream echoed through the house. She quickly rushed upstairs and picked up the boy and headed to the front yard. The boy dumbfounded by the sudden scream started to ask his mother what was wrong but was quickly interrupted by the sound of sirens shooting over the rooftops in their suburban neighborhood. His mother then proceeded to tell him that everything would be okay and that he didn't have to worry about a thing. Later that evening, a police officer came up to the boy and said the words that would stick in this child's head for the rest of his life. He said, "Son, you're the man of the house now." The boy didn't know what to make of this, he just knew that it was around the time when his father normally would arrived home from work, so he ran downstairs and waited on his father...
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...I do believe that society has fallen so deep into their wallets that the idea of helping others to succeed like they did is just too much to ask. But is it that hard? Open your eyes and next time your asked to, do everyone a favor and set an example by being one person who actually does spare some change.
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Food insecurity is one of the major social problems that we have in our world today. The concern about this problem is the increasing number of people that are beginning to experience hunger more often. “While hunger has long been a public health concern in developing countries, it has received varying degrees of attention in the United States, most notable during the 1930s and 1960s” (Poppendieck 1992). In addition to lack of food, there are consequences that follow. People, especially children, who suffer from food deprivation also undergo some health issues such as malnutrition and obesity, which leads to more health care and hospitalizations. “In the early 1980s, most reports of hunger involved families with children, the elderly, the unskilled and unemployed youth, the mentally ill, the homeless and minorities” (Brown 1992; Nestle and Guttmacher 1992). However, a particular ethnic group that is greatly affected by food insecurities are the Hispanic...
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Food insecurity does not discriminate; it reaches many segments of society (Whitney, DeBruyne, Pinna, & Rolfes, 2007). Even through closely related to poverty, not all that have food insecurities are in poverty. Often it is the working poor that are hit the hardest. The working poor are a group that despite having a job, there income is too low to meet their need or that of their family. Most of the working poor (56%) live in families with children, so that the poverty of these workers affects many others as well (Problems Facing the Working Poor, Kim 1999). Many lower to middle class families will temporarily struggle with food insecurity at various times during the year. For these families government assistance may not immediately available. Appling for Supplemental Nutrition Assistanc...
Food insecurity is an issue faced by millions of Americans every day, and the biggest group affected by this is working families with children. Food insecurity is so big that the United States government has now recognized it and provided a definition for it. The United States government has defined food insecurity as “a household level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food” (USDA.gov). Food banks and anti-hunger advocates agree that some of the causes of food insecurity are stagnant wages, increase in housing costs, unemployment, and inflation of the cost of food. These factors have caused food banks to see a change in the groups of people needing assistance. Doug O’Brien, director of public policy and research at Chicago-based Second Harvest says “’we’ve seen a real shift in who we serve. A decade ago, it was almost always homeless, single men and chronic substance abusers. Now we have children and working families at soup kitchens’” (Koch). These families that are feeling the effects of food insecurity will not be only ones affected by it, but all of America. Studies have shown that there is a link between food security, performance in the classroom, and obesity. If this issue is not faced head on, America will have a generation of children not fully prepared for the workforce and high health insurance rates due to obesity health issues.
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