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Roman Starvation:
1) The Roman economy was failing so they raised the taxes making it very hard for the farmers to live. 2) The main concern of the Roman economy was to feed the people. 3) The more crops the farmers grew the higher they were taxed so there was no point to grow very much food. 4) People started getting sick and dying because there wasn’t enough food. 5) The economy kept getting worse and worse making the farmers grow less and less. 6) The Romans had so much money because of expansion and they blew through it really fast because they thought they had more. Expansion ended up causing many people to die from starvation. 7) The Romans didn’t have good fertile farm land to grow crops so it was hard to grow all the crops that the Roman Empire needed. 8) All people of Rome were required to buy a monthly ration of corn at a fixed price. 9) In 58 B.C Clodius abolished the charge and started distributing wheat for free. 1) More than one billion people are suffering from hunger. 2) 98 present of people suffering from hunger live in developing countries. 3) Starvation today is not cause by scarcity of food but by not being able to afford enough food. 4) The fastest most direct way to reduce hunger is through the national nutrition programs. 5) More than 1 in 5 children are at risk of hunger. 6) More than 20 children receive free or discounted lunch/breakfast at school. 7) Low-income households spend a greater share of their income on food. 1)"Food and hunger." //CRS//. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Feb 2012. . 2). "How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome." //the Cato Journal//. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Feb 2012. . 3) . "Causes of Hunger in the U.S.." //bread for the world//. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Feb 2012. []. Free store food bank president, kreiber@freestorefoodbank.org Message back from me and Tim (Tim sent it) Good Morning Tim, Thank you for your interest in hunger in our community. You raise some very good questions concerning hunger in our community. I will answer your questions that you raise but I have also included some statistics and facts about hunger from the Feeding America website. Feeding America is a national organization of 202 member foodbanks across the United States to which the Freestore Foodbank belongs. 1. What do you believe the best way to end hunger in the U.S.? I feel that the best way for us to end hunger in the U.S. is to focus on one of the root causes of hunger which is the large drop-out rate of students in our schools. An uneducated adult is unable to earn a living and support his/her family. The result is that the children of those uneducated adults will not have enough food to eat and then result in a hungry child being unable to learn and then the cycle continues, where the students drop out of school and then are unable to provide for themselves. 2. What can people do in their community to help the starved (hungry)? There are many things that you as an individual or a group can do to help those individuals and families that are hungry. As you will see in some of the statistics below, there are a number of people in our community that are food insecure. Food insecurity is when an individual does not know where their next meal is going to come from. In our community, there are a number of food pantries and soup kitchens that you can volunteer at, in addition to volunteering at the Freestore Foodbank. In addition to volunteering, you can also support or run a canned food drive to raise shelf stable food that can be provided to our neighbors in need. Another great way to help our neighbors in need would be to raise money to support your local food pantry, soup kitchen or the Freestore Foodbank. There are many times when someone will say that their small contribution will not make a difference. Because of the buying power of the Freestore Foodbank, we are able to leverage a $25 donation to purchase enough food to buy food to provide a family of four food for a week. Another good way to help out the hungry would be to do exactly what you are doing with your paper, and that is to raise awareness of the plight of our neighbors in need. 3. What do you feel causes hunger to start and end? As I stated above, one of the root causes of hunger in our community is the lack of a good education. However, there are some individuals that have a very good education that find themselves looking to the Freestore Foodbank for food because they are unemployed or may have had an emergency come up in their lives that caused them to spend the money that they had for food on a medical emergency, like a doctor's visit or medicine for their child. In many cases the neighbors that we see in our food pantries around our community are living paycheck to paycheck and if they have an unexpected emergency that comes up that causes them to spend money for that emergency situation instead of buying food for their family, then they either go hungry or come to food pantries or the Freestore Foodbank for food. 4. What percentage of the people in the U.S. have trouble feeding their family? In 2010, 48.8 million Americans, or 1 in every 6 Americans, lived in food insecure households; that represents 32.6 million adults and 16.2 million children. Closer to home, the Freestore Foodbank supports 325 food pantries and soup kitchens in the 20 counties surrounding downtown Cincinnati (3 counties in Eastern Indiana, 9 counties in Northern Kentucky and 8 counties in Southern Ohio), and in those 20 counties there are more than 300,000 food insecure individuals and roughly 110,000 of those individuals are children. To put this in perspective for you, Anderson Township, where Nagel Middle School is located has a population of 43,857. Please feel free to contact me if you have further questions or need any clarification to the information that I have shared with you. Thank you for your interest and best of luck with your research paper. All the best, Kurt Reiber Stop hunger now main office, info@stophungernow.org Bread for the world, bread@bread.org Social Justice at XU; []
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E-mail: robertshawm@xavier.edu
Phone: 513-745-3560 Fax: 513-745-3371 Questions to ask: 1) What do you believe is the best strategy for supplying food to those who cannot obtain on their own? 2) What can people in a community do to help the hunger problems in their area? 3) What are the root causes of hunger in an area? Is it eviornmental? Or social reasons? 4) What services does the government provide for US families that are part of the group that face hunger? Final Project: []