More Americans Face Food Shortage

May 19, 2008 in USA

More Americans Face Food Shortage usatoday.com — As economists nationally debate whether the country is in recession and policy makers discuss ways to drive down gas prices, a new category of Americans combats hunger. Since 2006, soaring food and fuel prices have combined with lost jobs and stagnant wages to boost the number of Americans needing food aid. More than 41 percent of those on food stamps came from working families in 2006, up from 30 percent a decade earlier, according to the latest Agriculture Department data.

Food Stamp Recipients Scramble for Food msnbc.msn.com — This is what the skyrocketing cost of food looks like at street level: Poor people whose food stamps don’t buy as much as they once did rushing into a store in the dead of night, filling shopping carts with cereal, eggs and milk so their kids can wake up on the first day of the month to a decent meal.