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by mordocai 3813 days ago
The only problem I have with your comment is that there are quite a few people who starve or nearly starve in the US. Dismissing all poverty in the US as just a hard time paying bills is incorrect.

Yes, there are a lot of programs to provide help in the US but many of them are far enough away that you'd need a car and if you don't have a car you are out of luck.
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joelrunyon 3813 days ago
Is there a database of statistics on starvation in the US? Genuinely curious.
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hluska 3813 days ago
Feedingamerica.org would be a good place to start. The site is about the difference between poverty and food insecurity. If any place could put to a comprehensive database on outright starvation, that would be it.

I'd argue though that in North America, outright starvation isn't as much of a problem as just having difficulty accessing healthy food. The last stats that I read argue that about 15 million kids in the US experience hunger. They may not be starving, but they will have more trouble learning without adequate adequate nutrition.

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joelrunyon 3813 days ago
I think that would be my complaint too - malnutrition rather than direct starvation.

That said, that has a LOT to do with our guidelines via the FDA and draws down from that moreso than inequality.

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