[dopidopHN]

The US is a country with rich people in it, it’s not a rich country.

( I live in New Orleans, 35% of kids don’t have enough calories per days to have a proper brain development. And New Orleans is fine compared to the rest or Louisiana )

[gottorf]

> in New Orleans, 35% of kids don’t have enough calories per days to have a proper brain development

Source? I find that hard to believe, considering how cheap and plentiful calories are and how numerous the various public assistance programs exist relating to feeding the poor.

[dopidopHN]

I know it’s intense. Those people must be stupid. Or it’s their fault and they deserve it. ( :s ! )

My bad for the figure, I had a third in mind. It’s less. Can’t find a general population figure in the short amount of time. 20 ish % of black kids is enough or it’s fine ?

Source :

https://www.cpex.org/blog/stateofhunger

What was eye opening to me was volonteering in a random school. And noticing how the breakfast was a important and respected steps. Like.. not everyone had dinner last night.

Oh well, right ?

[alephknoll]

Been to new orleans. Didn't see anyone with 'caloric deficit' issues.

And you have it backwards. Louisiana has a problem with an overabundance of calories, not a lack of calories. Louisiana is one of most obese states in the country after all.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html

There are legitimate issues with economic disparity in the country. Not sure why you are trying to tie it to calories?

[dopidopHN]

Yeah calorie is probably not the right terms

Looking up what I had in mind the proper way to reference it is “food insecurity”

Source :

https://www.cpex.org/blog/stateofhunger

Or “no kid hungry Louisiana”, that the one I noticed here. Giving breakfast out in school. My first reaction was to wonder why. Digging I realized that a fair amount of kids were coming to school on a empty belly.

That’s it.

Also “been to New Orleans” is a funny statement! Congratulations on seeing Jackson square and the French quarter. It’s a city, not 10 historical blocks.

[marcusverus]

I find it utterly bizarre that this kind of ignorant hand-wringing is so pervasive. The US median household income is ~6x the global median. The average US household in the bottom income quintile has an income above global median before accounting for 10s of thousands of dollars in in-kind transfers (i.e. welfare).

> 35% of kids don’t have enough calories per days to have a proper brain development.

Utter nonsense.

[dopidopHN]

Oh yeah their is so much rich folks in the US.

Yet, I never seen that much poverty before moving here. I guess it’s just more visible.

Gini index would be a good addition to your figures.

Regarding a third of kids being hungry on a regular basis. I had it wrong indeed. It’s more 20% of black kids. Wee!

Source : https://www.cpex.org/blog/stateofhunger

[marcusverus]

The article says nothing about children lacking the calories required for brain development. It says 23% of black households self-reported "not having enough food in the past week". Which is weird, because when I go looking for objective data that might support the assertion that a significant percentage of the population isn't getting enough calories, I don't find anything. I did find an article that obtained weight data on both whites and blacks nationwide, and broke them down in Underweight, Normal, Overweight, and Obese categories... but the number of underweight individuals was so low that it rolled them into the 'Normal' category, and didn't even report the Underweight category. It's almost like everyone is getting more than enough to eat!

Neither your anecdata on "visible poverty" nor the US Gini index contradict the obvious fact that the USA is, by any serious measure, a rich country.

[dopidopHN]

So everything is fine and my experience is anecdotal.

It truly makes me feel better.

I should do the same exercise you did with Swiss data. That what come to my personal mind when I think of “rich country” not the lower 9th ward, or New Orleans East.

But since the US is rich like demonstrated.

I should actively start to reframe those place into “rich”. And look more at all those fat people in the street.