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very much doubt that only 5% of poor children don't get enough to eat. citation?
It's the same citation I added to my original post. You'd know this if you bothered to read the post you just responded to. http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa11/hstat/hsa/pages/221oo.html
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“Clearly the commenter means in cities or towns, or generally inside the public transportation system.” I doubt that’s what he meant, because that wouldn’t be much of a statement to make. When you live in a town or city, of course you can walk to a grocery store – that’s not unique to Europe. I lived in rural northern New Mexico, the 6th least densely populated state of the 50 United States. Even there, I could walk…
There was a 3rd clause there: "or generally inside the public transportation system."
The easiest way for everyone to save money is to cut fastfood out of the picture. Another way is to invite friends over for Friday night instead of drinking at the bar. Personally, I went through a period where I got lazy and worked sporadically for a year, and only worked to pay bills and survive. Life was honestly pretty crappy that year looking back on it.
That's not going to work for _everyone_.
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That depends, for the most part being on welfare doesn't allow for an extravagant lifestyle at all. Especially if you are a single person living alone. Job seekers allowance (the standard benefit for the unemployed) will net you around £50 per week. Out of that has to come all of your expenses including energy , food , travel etc. You may be able to get rent covered by separate housing benefits. Of course the right w…
> Job seekers allowance (the standard benefit for the unemployed) will net you around £50 per week. // Our family live on far less than that each per week after housing and we're working ... clearly we're not doing it right but it seems that is more than sufficient. Indeed my experience is that those I know on benefits can afford to live quite badly, wastefully.
By the time I've used Energy/Gas + Internet + transport I've taken a huge bite out of that, not to mention food , phone etc.
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very much doubt that only 5% of poor children don't get enough to eat. citation?
Government definitions of "poor" don't necessarily equate to what you and I would call "poor," due to politics (basically, getting more people identified "poor" helps you get votes if you're the party perceived as better able to help the poor, and in the US one party has dominated the poverty issue and used this strategy for a number of decades). For example, someone I knew in high school (a number of years ago now)…
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Fully agreed - IMHO this article again shows how removed from reality some people are and seemingly nothing is left out to polarise society further (a/k/a the poor are only to stupid - look here they can live a healthy diet on even less). a few thoughts on this article: (1) compare the energy / fat / etc in this article with the rations given to the British people during WWII and shortly afterwards - I estimate the a…
"a/k/a the poor are only to stupid - look here they can live a healthy diet on even less)." Agreed. George Orwell explored this one in his Road to Wigan Pier , ch 6. I would encourage people to shop at their local food market. I can get all the fruit and veg we need for a week for £5 to £6 relatively easily at Birmingham's Fruit and Veg market.
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Fully agreed - IMHO this article again shows how removed from reality some people are and seemingly nothing is left out to polarise society further (a/k/a the poor are only to stupid - look here they can live a healthy diet on even less). a few thoughts on this article: (1) compare the energy / fat / etc in this article with the rations given to the British people during WWII and shortly afterwards - I estimate the a…
I agree. Some of the meal choices were pretty ridiculous too. Toast and jam as an entire meal? And the title of the article is "How to eat healthy"?? There is one absolute best way to spend less on groceries, and it is something that everyone can do, regardless of where you live, what diet you're on, or how much money you have. What's the secret? When you're shopping, write down the cost of every item before putting…
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The trick to the author's math is this: A loaf of bread has, say, 24 slices in it. If you ate two of them, then the cost of bread was that day $0.34, when you amortize the loaf of bread over twelve days. If you can find a $2 loaf of bread with 24 slices, it's only about $0.08 for a slice of bread. But yes, I agree -- if you actually had to maintain this budget, you'd probably buy one kind of breakfast, lunch, and din…
Here's a loaf from Tesco for fifty pence (seventy-seven US cents). Looks like twenty or so slices, so call it 2.5 pence per slice; about four cents a slice. http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=262358089 As I recall, however, you have to be quick. The cheapest bread tends to vanish from the shelves within minutes of being put out.
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Most parents probably prioritise feeding their children above almost anything else. Then there are provisions like free school meals. So I wouldn't really expect the statistics to show many children not getting enough to eat. You seem to be focussing on the correlation between poverty and obesity. That's well known, but there are a couple of key differences from the discussion at hand: First, the poorest category is…
I'm looking at one of your citations now, and it lumps all households below about $20k into the 'poor' bracket. That's actually very likely the right thing to do. Thanks to various wealth transfer programs, anyone with earned income consumption of approximately $20k. ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt We don't need to see people literally starving to death to accept that people have a…