Tim+S

Chris Trueman,. "Ancient Rome and Trade." // History learning site //. historylearningsite.co.uk, 2011. Web. 31 Jan 2012. .

What are some of the reasons that people in ancient Rome starved ? Did people start starving when there was inflation or a war ?

is the welfare system today like ancient Romans ?

 * the ancient Romans started to starve because Alaric the Goth conquered the osista dock were all of the ships met to deliver the goods such as beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin and wine . so they had less resources and they had less food so that affected the starvation of ancient rome . **


 * Also another reason why the ancient romans were starving was because they werent getting enough crops and money for welfare or free food so the people who were on welfare would go hungry because they couldn't afford the food so they would starve so that is another reason for starvation **


 * Some more of the declines of fall of rome were the other civilisations were noticing that most of the army commandeers were arguing and fighting to be the emperor so they would attack and burn and conquer or kill the villages . **


 * Also some people starved because they were sick and thy couldn’t eat ( keep the food down ) **


 * one other way is that they cant afford food so they starve to death by being unable to buy the food **

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. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">3. What do you feel causes hunger to start and end? <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">4. What percentage of the people in the U.S. have trouble feeding their family? <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">All the best, Kurt Reiber
 * Most Romans who did starve were either farmers or they were foreigners who did not work. **