Feeding America, a non-profit devoted to feeding hungry Americans, has released its quadrennial report on "Hunger in America" for 2014. Think Progress gives a nice recap here.
Two items that stood out for me. First, over 46.5 million Americans (that's one in seven) receive food assistance in--broken record time--the richest nation in the history of human civilization. Second, that's 15.5 million households, forty percent of which have a child. Give or take, that's 20 million children.
20 million children.
Maybe the next time some numb nut conservatives try to blame the gays or abortion for God's wrath in the wake of a 9/11 or a Hurricane Katrina, they might just consider God's wrath over twenty million children going hungry in a nation that has wolfed down the fatted calf more times than can be counted.
Peace,
emaycee
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