Essay On Hunger In America

According to No Kid Hungry, “1 out of 5 children go to school every day hungry.” This issue of childhood hunger in America is an issue that needs to be more addressed than it is. Sure, there is a lot one can do through organizations. There is donating, volunteering, and just talking about it, but not enough people are doing it. It is not enough to try and decrease the amount of children that are going hungry. It is not enough to help these families who cannot feed their children. It is not enough to end hunger. We maybe be able to stop it, and the answer may be looking towards school.

How, in a country full of 318.9 million people, are there 16 million children that are not getting the food they need? It is crazy to think about it possibly even being your son’s or daughter’s friend. “1 in 7 people struggle to get enough to eat,” the organization, Feeding America, claims. The main questions we need to ask when assessing this is how, why, and what can we do? So, how? Approximately 46.7 million people are in poverty, and that includes 15.5 million children. If a family is in poverty, that normally means they are going hungry. Why? The reasons can be endless, it could be

How are there so many children that do not have enough food to fit their needs? The answer is poverty; the families in that are impoverished specifically. Why is this? Why is there poverty at all? There are too many reasons that people go into poverty to even comprehend, but one main reason that families struggle to feed their children is when parents are unemployed somehow. What could we do? There is much we can do, but more things we should is get schools more involved. Schools could offer classes to help children, offer more free opportunities for food, and possibly start a support group for these kids. Schools could help. Schools can help. The first step, is changing all the “could’s” to