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One need only look at the increased need for food pantries,
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You're a funny one to demand that people use unbiased sources, T-B.
Does the U.S. Conference of Mayors count? Their
2005 survey (pdf) came to the conclusion that requests for food assistance was increasing -- 12 percent overall. Requests exceeded resources; 18 percent of requests went unmet. This was the latest in a string of annual increases in need.
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the increase in homelessness,
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Show evidence from an unbiased source to support your claim.
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According to HHS, about 1 percent of the population -- 2 to 3 million people -- experience at least one night of homelessness per year that has them seeking help from a service organization. This does not count people who do not seek organized assistance.
The percentage among poor persons is much higher, as you might expect -- 4 to 6 percent.
About 200,000 people are considered "chronically homeless".
On any given night, between 400,000 and 600,000 Americans are homeless.
As for "increasing", I'll refer you again to the mayoral report. Request for emergency shelter went up 6 percent, again exceeding supply, again the latest in a string of increases. And the length of time people remained homeless increased, too.
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the increase in bankruptcies for people of little means,
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A lot of people declaring bankruptcy simply spent beyond their means.
Show evidence from an unbiased source to support your claim that there has been an increase in people declaring bankruptcy who could not otherwise pay their bills for essentials.
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That's just ignorant. The number one cause of bankruptcy is not "living beyond their means" -- it's unexpected, and huge, medical bills.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...tcy_study.html
Other known contributors are divorce or the death of a breadwinner.
The share of people who simply spend themselves into bankruptcy is small, and while such exceptions should be dealt with, they are a poor -- if convenient -- example to build policy on.
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the number of kids who get one of their 2 meals a day thanks to hot lunch programs.....
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This has increased? Produce and present evidence from an unbiased source.
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Read the program's fact sheet:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/lunch/
24 million kids used the program in 1990. 29.6 million use it now. That's an average annual growth rate of 1.41%.
http://www.investopedia.com/calculator/CAGR.aspx
By comparison, the United States' population growth rate is about 0.91%.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications.../print/us.html
By that crude measure, program use has grown significantly faster than the population.
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Are they ever going to accept responsibility for living in a hurricane zone? Are they ever going to accept responsibility for not leaving and instead foolishly waiting for big daddy government to come save them?
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Flood zone, I'll give you. Hurricane zone? Might as well depopulate the entire Eastern Seaboard.