Major cities, including Cleveland, expect ongoing issues over hunger and homelessness, study says

[OhioChick]

Source: Cleveland.com

December 12, 2014 at 10:38 AM

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Requests for emergency food is expected to increase over the next year in several metropolitan areas, while meeting those needs could continue to fall short, says a task force of some U.S. cities, including Cleveland.

The findings are from the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors Status on Hunger and Homelessness report released Thursday. Twenty-five cities with populations of 30,000 or more were surveyed.

The survey found that a majority of the 25 cities -- 84 percent -- expect food assistance requests to be substantial in the coming year. In Cleveland, city officials expect requests for food assistance to increase moderately, and resources to provide food assistance to continue at about the same level.

As for homelessness, 39 percent of the cities surveyed expect the number of homeless families to increase moderately next year. Thirty percent of the respondents said they expect homelessness to remain at about the same level, and 30 percent say they expect homelessness to decrease modestly.

Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_experiences_increase.html#incart_river

[Autumn]

1. Perhaps if we petition Citigroup they will craft a bill for Congress

that would help meet these needs. The bills that they craft always seem to be well received and passed.

rec

[merrily]

2. Why would cities NOT expect those things? Have they ever been without them?

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. 40%of school kids in KC area need food.

Kids receive 20,000 food backpacks here a year. They get meals at school and they get a backpack to take home over the weekend. Otherwise a whole lot of them have no food over the weekend.

[GGJohn]

4. Here's a wild idea.

Maybe, oh, I don't know, we should cut the defense budget by, say, 60%, and use that money to feed and house the homeless?
I know, I know, the warmongers would never let that happen, but it would be a start.

[turbinetree]

5. John Boehnor

Maybe he can give up some his $225,000 Majority Speaker of the House dollars he makes off the citizens of Ohio and all of the taxpayers by the helping the poor, middle class, homeless, hungry, but I digress
Lets not forget that spending 224 days off and on vacation and away from the office of the people and playing golf is more important that his constituents of the state-------way to go:
banghead:

[procon]

6. The next Chairman of House Agriculture Committee plans more food stamp cuts

Republican Mike Conaway, one of the biggest recipients of farm subsidies, will take food from the mouths of millions of the poor while continuing to put farm subsidy money in the pockets of rich investors like himself.

And these people want to preach to the rest of us about morality? Republicans like Conaway are the reason we have food stamps. If Republicans want to brag about being anti-abortion, anti-welfare, anti-living wage, anti-healthcare, then they must be pro-food stamps because hunger is not a game!

Period.