The Causes And According To The Montana No Kid Hungry

Abstract Various studies have been conducted on the cause of world hunger and its effects on children. There are over 900 million people that are starving in the world today. Hunger and malnutrition is a major problem that many Americans encounter on a daily basis. This hunger is deprived from ones inability to buy the food they need. We often overlook the fact that our country can be subjected to “third-world” problems such as starvation. It’s hard to see the slow painful death for people who have to wake up hungry, go through their day hungry, and lay their heads down at night still hungry. Lack of food takes a toll on the lives of many individuals and more importantly our developing youth. This research paper will examine the causes and

Food insecurity is not having a consistent, sustainable source of food that meets nutritional needs. Family economic insecurity, meaning low wages, job loss, disability, lack of benefits and health care, essential expenses leave no money for food (mt. nokidhungry 2009). In other words, these families who subsequently have no money left over for food are families who are usually impoverished. While utility, rent, childcare, medical bills, transportation and other expenses are inevitable to be paid; the payment to the nourishment of our bodies should be no different. Studies show that is children and families in urban and reservation areas who are at the highest risk for food insecurity. More than 16 million children are currently poor in the United States, and the poverty rate among American children is now 22%, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty fact sheet (NCCP 2105). Seven states have statistically significant higher household food insecurity rates than the U.S. national average of 14.7%. The top five states with the highest rate of food-insecure children under 18 are New Mexico (30.6%), the District of Columbia (30.0%), Arizona, Oregon, and Georgia. In addition, 20% or more of the child population in 37 states live in food-insecure households without consistent access to food (Raphel, s. (2014). There are one in five children living in poverty, and it is up to the states to feed these children. These statistics and percentages are relatively high and are only getting higher with the rate of our forever growing