"Let us march on poverty until no American parent has to skip a meal so that their children may eat. March on poverty until no starved man walks the streets of our cities and towns in search of jobs that do not exist. Let us march on poverty until wrinkled stomachs in Mississippi are filled, and the idle industries of Appalachia are realized and revitalized, and broken lives in sweltering ghettos are mended and remolded." ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, March 14, 2011
NC ranks sixth in food insecurity in 2010
In a March 2011 report of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), North Carolina ranked sixth in the nation for food hardship in 2010, with a 23.5 percent rate of food hardship. The national average was 18 percent. This means that more than one in five respondents in our state answered "yes" when asked by Gallup if they did not have enough money to buy food at some point in the last 12 months. See the complete report here.
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