Food Stamps Help Stave Off Hunger in Many U.S. Homes
MONDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- At some point, nearly half of all American children and teens will live in a home that receives food stamps, a new study shows.
Researchers analyzed 30 years (1968 to 1997) of national data collected by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and found that by the time they were 1 year old, 12.1 percent of U.S. children had lived in households receiving food stamps. That increased to 26.1 percent at 5 years of age; 35.9 percent at 10 years; 43.6 percent by age 15, and 49.2 percent by age 20.
The study also found that by age 20, about one-third of children had lived in households that received food stamps for two or more years, 28.1 percent for three or more years, 26.4 percent for four or more years, and 22.8 percent for five or more years.
Food stamp use was most likely among households with black children and those who lived in households headed by adults who were unmarried or had had less than 12 years of education, the researchers reported in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
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This study came along at a fortuitous time since there are so many people talking about children having trouble obtaining food to eat in the US. We are running a film contest that is entering the judging stage tomorrow ) Nov 6-Dec 4, in which filmmakers under 25 made short films dealing with just this subject. We are very concerned with raising the publics awareness that hunger affects not just homeless people that you assume are hungry, but everyday people, your neighbors, it could happen to anyone. The top 3 films will receive cash prizes and the finalists are determined by popular vote so please come check out these films!
WWW.Facesofhunger.org