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31 million Americans are hungry,
12 million are children. |
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The National poverty rate is
11.7% Miller County’s poverty rate is 19.3% followed by a poverty rate
of 17.7% in Bowie county. |
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Harvest Texarkana is a United
Way agency. |
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Harvest Texarkana is an
affiliate of America’s Second Harvest, the largest domestic hunger
relief organization. In their 2001 hunger study, America’s Second
Harvest reported that 45% of the people who received food have had to
choose between buying food and paying for utilities. |
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Twenty eight local hunger relief
agencies depend on Harvest Texarkana to help feed their clients and/or
fill request for sacks of groceries. |
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Over 96 billion pounds of
excess, edible food is thrown away every year in the United States. |
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More than 315,000 free meals
were provided by Harvest Texarkana last year. |
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| There is no lack of food in the United States—only an inequitable
distribution for reasons such as cost of living, lack of supermarkets in
poor neighborhoods, and bureaucracy standing between the hungry and help
from government programs. Common Myth about Hunger |
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People are poor and hungry because they are too lazy to work... Almost half of the people we serve live in households with at least one
working adult. And, 39% of the people we feed every year are children
under the age of 18. |
