Personality Types and Leadership

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Hunger at Home

• Topic 7012
• Emily Styes

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Objectives

• Define and describe hunger
• Define and describe food insecurity
• Examine and explain general hunger issues in the
  United States
• Understand, organize and create a community
  service project that addresses the hunger issue

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• What is hunger?

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Hunger

• The uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of
  food.
• When "hunger in America" is discussed, people are
  referring to the recurrent and involuntary lack
  of access to sufficient food due to poverty or
  constrained resources
• Can lead to malnutrition over time.

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• What is food insecurity?

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Food Insecurity

• Not enough access to food for an active and
  healthy life
• The lack of financial resources to have enough
  food available to meet basic needs at all times
• Need emergency food sources

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• Is hunger an issue for the United States?

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says

• In 1999 ten percent of all U.S. households (19
  million adults and 12 million children) were
  "food insecure"
• Of the 10.5 million households that were food
  insecure, 3.1 million suffered from food
  insecurity that was so severe that USDA's very
  conservative measure classified them as "hungry."
  
• Five million adults and 2.7 million children
  lived in these hungry households.

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More Statistics

• 1 in 4 children do not eat regular meals each day
  because of lack of food in their home
• Roughly 13 million American children wonder where
  theyll find their next meal
• 67 of those seeking emergency food assistance
  have an income of 10,000 or less. Of these
  individuals, 49 are working fulltime

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• I cannot get used to hunger and desperate
  poverty in our plentiful land. There is no
  reason for it, there is no excuse for it, and it
  is time that we as a nation put an end to it.
• - Mickey Leland, late member of congress

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Case Studies
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Objectives Reviewed

• Define and describe hunger
• Define and describe food insecurity
• Examine and explain general hunger issues in the
  United States
• Understand, organize and create a community
  service project that addresses the hunger issue

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