Does the US government let its own poor people starve?

Question

People always complain about how "the US spends money while people are starving in our streets". It sounds pretty cruel, but is it true?

Answer 1

http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/menu/Published/FSP/FILES/Participation/FSPPart2004-Summary.pdf

This should answer your question.

If someone is starving it isn't because there isn't help out there for them available.

Don't believe all the sob stories you hear.

Answer 2

On October 24th, 2005, for the first time since the birth of the modern human rights system over half of century ago, a United Nations expert began a formal visit to the United States to document extreme poverty and the underlying human rights violations that create it. Mr. Arjun Sengupta, the U.N. Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty began his visit at Picture the Homeless, a grassroots group founded and led by homeless people organizing for social change. Mr. Sengupta met and spoke with homeless community leaders, as well as community leaders working on worker's rights, immigrant rights, welfare rights, and food and income security. The testimonies from this extraordinary meeting between poor New Yorkers and a renowned international expert show that poverty is neither inevitable nor impossible to abolish. They also show that only by abolishing poverty will we be able to ensure the human rights of all people in this country
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Cities around the country are reporting record numbers of homeless people entering shelters or sleeping on the streets.
Reading and Discussion Questions

As a faltering U.S. economy, skyrocketing housing prices and reduced government services force people from their homes, agencies are scrambling to find ways to provide shelter and assistance to a growing and changing homeless population.

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimates some 3 million men, women and children will be homeless for at least some part of 2002.

"I suspect it is going to be a record increase this year, as it was last year," Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the organization said in a Washington Post interview. "And it really does have to do with the economy, mainly loss of jobs and loss of wage-earning power."

An unexpected rise

Answer 3

Unless someone is sick/disabled or otherwise unable to seek the help of any of our free social programs, no one in the US should be starving to death. There are alot of misconceptions about the reason people are poor, (not starving), in the US, most actual reasons are the direct result of a combination of poor upbringing, laziness, incompetence or irresponsibility, but those seeking help in the US are given help.

Answer 4

No one has starved death in the USA in over 100 years. If you miss a meal in a week you are counted as one of the "hungry" and thats the truth.

Answer 5

Very few people in the US are starving, although there are some folks who are just so damn lazy or addicted to drugs and booze that they might just lie around the streets and not do anything to try and feed themselves.

Answer 6

No one starves in this country unless done intentionally by a caregiver.

Answer 7

I think mental illness plays a lot into the homeless of today.

Answer 8

NO, it is not true!!!