Stuff-A-Bus is very important to our community because right now millions of Americans live each day in hunger or on the verge of hunger. Some of the eye opening facts about hunger in America include:
- One in five people in a soup kitchen line is a child
- In 1999, approximately 12 million American children were hungry or at risk of hunger
- Nearly 1 in 5 children (more than 12 million) in the U.S. live in poverty
- 46% of cities surveyed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness
- Recent research indicates that even mild undernutrition experienced by young children during critical periods of growth may lead to reductions in physical growth and affects brain development
NOTE: Facts obtained from NYPIRG.
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