For those people, the $2 a day that school lunch costs (or even 50 cents for reduced price lunch) is literally too much money, because it is. So those kids go hungry. I knew plenty of those kids that all of you are insisting don't exist (for some reason) and no, the existing welfare is just not enough, even in an extremely low cost of living area, in a state with significant state level aid.
That teacher's support might be vital to a hungry 8yo whose parents can't/won't/don't fill out the form?
In my area it is a school policy that a kid would not be denied food even if they had no money in their account - and every place I lived had organizations that would eagerly step up to address such a problem if and when it manifested.
For what it is worth, during COVID and a few years after, in my state every kid got free lunch in school regardless of their income.
I met the teacher following a photograph who tried to document the opioid epidemic, crica 2018 (we were young and naive, video is probably the only communication medium that's worth anything when you're independent, photography is harder), while I kayaked/hiked/rafted/climbed everywhere I could for the two month I was there. I think she work for a magazine now. And I'm still convinced West Virginia is only lacking a huge lake or a sea to be the best place on earth.
That's 17 million HOUSEHOLDS that struggled to provide food and 6.8 million HOUSEHOLDS that had to skip meals. I wouldn't call that rare.
[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=107...
People say this as if we don't have direct statistics about how hungry poor americans are.
Maybe your ASSERTION that poor people should have enough food because "it's cheap" isn't right and you should investigate that.
"Some folks did a study with 900 people. They found the same correlation that the original study did. But when they controlled for household income, they found most of the correlation disappeared."
So original study didn't control for income. If the original study claimed it across all incomes, and then it mostly went away when others controlled for income, then the delayed gratification strong correlation wasn't really for all incomes, right?
> More simply: people who grow up hungry learn to eat whenever they can because being hungry is awful
> It doesn’t even need to generalize. This is just a basic food security thing and is part of the reason why obesity is counter intuitively common among people who suffer from food insecurity.
Share the study that backs your assertions. If you don't have a study then everything you've claimed has no scientific basis.
> Share the study that backs your assertions. If you don't have a study then everything you've claimed has no scientific basis.
How about “that sounds interesting, could you cite a source?”
