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Food Banks In New York Are Running Out Of Food
Welcome to the Recovery! Food banks across the US state of New York are running out of food (37% of food pantries say they have had to turn away needy people because they ran out of food), amid falling funds and rising demand from people that have trouble affording food. About 2.6 million people have trouble affording food across New York with about 1.4 million New York City residents relying on food pantries to feed themselves, according to the Food Bank For New York City. But as PressTV reports, contrary to the belief that people visiting food pantries are homeless and jobless, most customers are employed, but are not paid enough money to put food on the table without help.
Michael Berg, the director of an organization that runs three food pantries in New York, told The Associated Press that demand for food there has risen by about 20 percent each year for the last few years.
Food banks across the US have seen increased demand from hungry Americans since 2013, ever since Congress cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program, by an average of $18 per person a month.
About 40 percent of those receiving food stamp benefits then turned to emergency food services, leading to an increase in demand, according to The New York Times.
Despite the state doing “relatively well” at feeding its hungry compared to the rest of the country, New Yorkers now miss about 100 million meals each year, and 37 percent of food pantries say they have had to turn away needy people because they ran out of food, The Times reported.
As Joshua Krause via The Daily Sheeple notes,
Despite the media’s claims that we’re no longer in a recession, millions of Americans are still struggling to make ends meet. It seems that America has developed a permanent underclass of citizens that just can’t quite rise above their poverty. No matter how high home prices rise or how far the stock market soars, the profits never seem to trickle down to this segment of society.
If you’re looking for proof that this permanent underclass exists, look no further than the massive number of people who still rely on food stamps and food pantries to survive. In fact, their ranks may be growing, which is starting to cause some food pantries to run out of resources on a regular basis. In New York City, 1.4 million residents eat at food pantries (out of a total population of 8.5 million), a number which is currently growing 20% every year.
The largest influx of food bank users occurred in 2013, when Congress cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $18 per person. Since that time, 40% of food stamp users have had to turn to food banks to sustain themselves, and 37% of food banks in New York City have admitted that they have turned away hungry residents in recent years, after running out of food.
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Surely Bloomberg can send some <16oz sodas ?
There's an app for that.
Local food bank empty? Just look for another one in your area and browse their inventory using this new, innovative app**
** Only works on Obamaphone. Copyright United States Department of Health and Human Services 2015.
Wait... can't these racist fuckers survive on "hope and change"?
Bastards!
they're just "little people"
Why doesn't the Fed just print moar?
Oh wait, you're talking about FOOD banks....
They cut SNAP out of the Farm Bill because they want to reduce the amount of money that goes into the SNAP program, which they did, and as each year goes on, the less the leeches of society will get, and the more they will be forced into those low paying temporary jobs or starve to death...
The sad thing is, many elderly, veterans who are disabled, and people unable to work cannot survive without it...
Yes, this is change we can't believe in, but you better buckle up citizens, you're free shit is going bye bye...
~"they're just "little people""~
That's racist. They're "socially significance challenged".
Mkay, our Obamaphone is strong but honestly, we can't handle bad smells. Will the app look out for us?
Grab your Obama phone and call in some Obama take out food... Simple, problem solved.
If the NSA doesn't have it sent to their door instead.... (Civil Asset Forfeiture)
Take a minute to investigate these "ObamaPhones"...I did...summary, they're not free...not even close...HUGE ripoff to anyone suckered in to signing up for one of these things...yeah, the phone itself may be free...but the cost to use it is outragous.
I'll bet all those people have a cell phone.
"I'll bet all those people have a cell phone." It's worse than that...local news did a food bank piece...featured an old black lady struggling to survive on her Social Security check...I thought she was rather well dressed for being so poor...the cameras followed her out to her car...and filmed her driving away in a relatively new Toyota Camry...we've definitely "redefined" poverty.
Also, local homeless shelter spent years raising millions for a new, ultra-deluxe, facility...the old one was way too small.
Long story short, they got it built...but the homeless wouldn't stay in it...BECAUSE...using the facilities required that you begin to take steps to become self sufficient...clean yourself up, get medical/psyco help, WORK at the shelter to earn your stay...
So then the cops went out and started destroying the tent cities under our bridges to try and force people into the shelters..what a mess.
Not just in New York
Over 1 million people in the UK now rely on food banks. A lot of them work. Thing's can't go on like this in the US, UK and everywhere else for much longer without shit kicking off.
"a cup-o-tea and two slices" George Orwell-- Yea, the other one you did not read but should have.
A wonderful book and you can read it for free.
http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Down-and-Out-in-Paris-and-London.pdf
No lack of Pink Slime, or Soylent Green ingredients.
Long Long Pork.
Where others see serfs, I see an army ;-)
Something about an Army marches on its stomach comes to mind.......
Of course, that's why TPTB have made them their Hope-and-Change Yes-We-Can FSA.
Unless you have the resources to successfully deprogram these drones from TPTB propaganda and reprogram them again this army will continue to fight for their current evil overlords.
Yes, I suppose the negative aspect of grown able bodied men accepting their fate in life to be beggars at a food bank will have to be taught to them in a different way.
They need pride in themselves first, then comes honor and respect...that doesn't come from handouts.
Men are pigs and apes. They need reeducation, even genetic reengineering according to my enlightened societal truthsayers. I can't even watch House Hunters on HGTV anymore since nary an episode isn't indoctrinating me as to what's normal; homosexual couples and beta men.
Fuck the poor, we have wars to wage in the M.E., bitchez...... -Uncle Joe Biden-
Sure, they're paying 2k month for a 1 bedroom apartment.
Oh NO--they pay $300 a month, and the subsidy is $1700@month, paid by.........
YOU
most customers are employed, but are not paid enough money to put food on the table without help
Could it be that many of the "customers" don't actually need the free food, but are simply taking it because it is free?
Yes, cause we know that EBT is just an invitation to cash it out and then go to the food banks. Amerika is so "exceptional."
Maybe once they run out of food the people will realize they're being fleeced by the bankers and riot.
ZH mantra...banksters...jooos...neocons. Yup, all figured out.
Look dipshit don't label me. I've been around since the beginning and I don't fit that meme.
Bankers are democrats and neo-cons, jews and WASPs. I don't give a fuck what religion or party they are. Bankers need to die like the roaches they are.
Well, ok, but ZH is generally what I posted, if I mischacterized you, I apologize. BTW, banksters are company personnel with little inherent power, and their power rests upon the very well known, elected officials with the guns. I'm just tried of the shadowy cabel bs. It isn't shadowy, nor is it all that cabal...it is direct and in our faces, daring anyone to even look crosseyed. Just like it has always been throughout history. Before there were banksters there were banksters of a different name. And before the Rothchilds elbowed their way to the top, there were banksters financing regimes.
Meh. My bet is on faster riots if you close dowwn the Walgreens. Pills tobacco and booze will be a quick problem. No smartphoes or internet?
Step 1: Squeeze parts of society until they snap.
Step 2: Spread fear in the rest of society about riots through the teevee
Step 3: Come down with an iron fist, making examples
Step 4: Pass more draconian laws (that lemmings will demand) to "prevent riots".
Oh and don't actually fix the underlying socioeconomic issues.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
He also said "Demoracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
But two in a row? I guess we're exceptional.
Fire up the food printers.
Duh.
I wonder how many people use food banks that are not desperate enough to justify it. I used to work for a guy who had an S Corp grossing around 20 grand a month (cut himself small wage and buried profits), always claimed poverty to the state, paid no taxes, received state medical care for his entire family, occasionally applied for food stamps and of course voted Democrat. He liked to brag about this as he thought he was quite clever.
In the 80's a pink sheet trader and brought small IPOs....lol
Ms. No
You're pointing out an exception more than the main individuals who are truly in need of food assistance. There's a large majority of these people that cannot make ends meet & have to resort to food banks. Also, I wonder why our dear politicos, banksters & high rollers aren't pitching in to help the needy? It seems that waging wars all over the world in the name of the HOLY LAND is a priority in dear ol' USA.
Oh I agree absolutely, I didn't mean to sound as though I don't believe there is an actual problem, the need is rising and fewer people can donate as well. It's amazing how people can hoard billions and watch people suffer by the millions but that is a hallmark of a psychopath and they are most likely not just ignoring the problem, but rather they enjoy it.
What I find interesting is that a lot are working and still need the food banks.
They have it all wrong. They need to get unemployed and enjoy the good life in the FSA. It's much more comfy....
Ms No's example may be an outlier, but I suspect many are in that gray area of "I'm so poor," but can afford 3 dogs, all vet costs, two cars, cigs and beer.
we runned out of food some folks
Just give them an paper IOU and tell them to hope for change. Might as well get used to the new normal.
If the food wasn't so good in NYC they wouldn't have that problem.
Fuck the so called poor. If they had any existence beyond a fed pet, they'd fight for their food.
Often the real income they get goes to the pet(s), plus tobacco and alcohol.
Not all, mind you, but I suspect way too many.
It's not only food banks but Walgreens closes and non commissions a store and instead of donating the store inventory to charity, which contained everything in a drug store's inventory from tooth paste, canned goods and other foods, and trucked it on over to a land fill. No time for charity at Walgreens as the goods were not connected to consumer data that could be sold for profit.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/06/walgreens-no-time-for-charity-moves.html
Like Ron Paul says 'when you start givin free stuff out don't be surprised how long the line gets'
Only the fascist pig and his son could ever sell that bullshit and still be the "Great White Hope". lol
The Hunger Games Reality Show.
Gimme Shelter & Food while you're at it.
Food banks and immigrants are an interesting study. Apparently the bank gives you a box of food, and you don't choose. I have a friend from Romania, great guy. He said all of the people in his community of E Europeans and Russians get boxes of food there. No matter how much money they have, they all go to the "Free Store" as they call it. They open their box and get the few things they want, and throw away the rest. Also some group asks them to donate what they don't want. It's stockpiled then SOLD in containers back to Russia. No shit.
There is a video of this practice by chink immigrants in San Fran. Here ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQdaDoqXsE
I'm no racist by any stretch. In fact, my wife is Asian and been happily married for more than 25 years. However, after watching the video link, all I can say is Mother f......rs. I hope to god with all my heart that they rot in hell.
Chink ? That woman is obviously Korean. These days, the typical Chinese immigrant are affluent with their ill gotten gain.
Not stopping all these free loading foreigner leeches will be our downfall.
The media will not report on homeless problems UNTIL there is a Republican in the White House. Then we'll hear countless stories about the plight of America's millions of homeless people.
It used to be a Thanksgiving Week news staple.
Lots of food bank stories, but no homeless family of 13 stories.
In many metro-politan areas across the country, tent cities are popping up everywhere.
San Diego, Portland, Miami...
Urban Camping
http://www.wikihow.com/Urban-Camp
The homeless are multiplying fast in my city. All of a sudden.
As economics 101 taught us, the demand for anything free is potentially infinite.
Googled my local food pantry.
Here is the requirement:
Documentation Required: Birth certificate, picture ID/driver license, social security card (for all members in the family), proof of income, proof of residence or lease, proof of legal status, background check.
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It looks like the program is entirely set up for facilitating businesses to exploit people so that it can make much better profits for business owners. I should've know better. Nothing in this world is set up to benefit people i mean slaves.
No, those requirements are because people donating don't want to help out Obama's illegal alien horde.
omg! those racists expect you to show ID?
can't help but wonder how many are needy and how many are greedy members of the fsa?
I'm fine with ID. But proof of income/residence is a bit much. No food for the unemployed/homeless, eh?
Get a 5 gallon bucket so potting soil and some seeds and grow your own!
Okay plan if:
you own a piece of land (or at least have legal access)
can get/pay for water
are physically fit/healthy enough to do physical labor
have a long mild growing season
know (or can learn) how to garden
have the tools and ability to prepare meals from raw ingredients
have some way to preserve and store food for the winter
I'm thinking a lot of people going to pantries can't do all that.
Some do supplement tomatoes or strawberries with container gardening.
But to garden anything of substance you need:
--Someone to till the ground, let's assume a medium sized garden, 40x80'. Initial tilling from sod: $200
--Most soil needs somethig (wrong pH and nothing grows well) so lime/fertilizer $100
--shovel/hoe/rake/hose/sprayer/bug spray (to keep them off you, not the plants) $70
--seeds $20 at best
--massive amounts of time = free.
I love to garden, have my own tiller, keep the soil in good shape and grow great stuff
I enjoy ~30lbs of basil pesto, frozen strawberries, asparagus and more, but in reality I don't really save any money compared to buying at the grocery.
The gov will keep them fed until the system breaks down. They know very well if these people are hungry and running out of food, there will be blood on the street.
A few summers ago I had shoulder surgery. So I hired a fellow as a sub-contractor to paint my house.
He did a good job, he was a hard worker and I paid him fairly.
I got to know him fairly well until I essentially decided that he was too much a danger, even as a subcontractor because he started toking up on the job.
There he was making good money by the week.
And yet he ate at the local food bank every day they were open. He'd often leave the job (he could as he set his own hours) to go to one hand-out or another.
I didn't realize that there were so many. The local food bank, the Salvation Army "emergency food," and others. (he had an old toyo so he could travel places).
He spent his money on pot, from what he told me I'd guess about $400/month.
He wouldn't really try to get a real job because they all had drug tests.
While he was painting one day a neighbor (the neigbor was on SS disability) came over to chat with him. Later he told me that the fellow had asked him why he worked. He answered that he was not disabled. The fellow then lectured him on how to become disabled: "just give strange answers."
There are many who live in my neighborhood who are on disability, TANF and other programs. Many do not work. Most smoke, most drink, and almost all have a better car than I do. (I've only a part-time job but a good one). I don't even know how they do it. My bank recently never got back to me--I wanted a car loan and had over 40% down. Guess I'm just not impoverished enough.
There are those who really need assistance and then there are various grades of folk who milk the system.
Yup, times, they are a'changin.