I need to find out what the government did to stop hunger before they started food stamp programs. Help!?
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People had sense and they worked. The ones that had would help the ones that didn't. There were soup kitchens also.
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Knowing what state you are in would be helpful, but that you have access to the internet, you should visit the link for your state's Dept of Health and Human services and look under the FAQs page for TANF and food stamp assistance
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No one is starving in the united states. We have food stamps, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, churches, canned food drives, welfare checks, and all sorts of other handouts. We also have the richest and most generous population on earth. Whomever is starving is a crack addict or is too lazy to beg the government for my money, or is making good money pretending to be poor and begging on the streets for booze money.\n\nI repeat: No one is starving in the United States.\n\nHowever, I agree with the premise that we send too much aid overseas, when that aid is stolen by aggressive governments who fund terrorism and butcher thier own people an buy weapons with the money sent for aid.
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Thanks for asking.  Here's the answer.  The government should never, ever, hand out money, or anything of value for that matter.  The fraud involved in that method is vast.  Make sure the people are getting what it was intended they get (eliminating, for example, the old food stamps for crack barter).  Concentrate hard on eliminating the waste and fraud inherent in the system.  Every dollar you save by eliminating fraud and waste could be used to get these people off welfare (at no additional cost to the taxpayers).  Education, job training, relocation.  Once you have a good system for getting people off welfare, then you can start to install restrictions to "encourage" the less motivated.  You could also clamp down on fraud and waste in other government departments and use that "free" money to get people off of welfare and out of poverty.  Done.  Next problem.
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If you are already in any exercise program then to prevent hunger eat small portion of healthy food 5-6 times a day.\n\nDon't let you body go without a palm/fist size portion of food for more than 2-4hours.\n\nDrink lotsa plain water.\n\nFor more accurate information try the book Slow Burn by Stu Mittleman.\n\nMaybe you can find in in library.
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What do you need help with?  The government helps with food stamps, medical,  and housing if your income qualifies.  Go to Social Services in your area and see if you qualify.
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There is a way for people in India with a computer, or anywhere in the world to help feed starving people.  It can be done any time of the day or night, no matter where you are, and it is entirely free.\n\nAll you do is go to www.thehungersite.com and click on the button.  This no trick.  It really works.
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Ok, first go to your local chapter of United Way. They can help get you in contact with Meals on Wheels who help out very low income families with lunches,and they can help you get in contact with your local food bank.\n Here in Texas,we have an organization called Elf Louise who in turn sponsors the Marines- Toys for Tots campaign each year gathering,wrapping and  giving toys to children of low income families.
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you need to be more specific , i don't know if this will will help . i found a lot on the ten state survey but like i said you need to state exactly what you are looking for. sorry.\n\nPoverty and Nutrition Risk\nAn underlying premise of the WIC program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) is that low-income predisposes women, infants, and children to poor nutrition status and health outcomes. By using both an income standard of up to 185 percent of the federal poverty level and nutrition risk criteria in determining eligibility for participation in the WIC program, the WIC program attempts to target scarce program resources to those individuals with limited economic resources who are at the highest risk of poor outcomes. Before reviewing (in subsequent chapters) the scientific evidence relating to the nutrition risk criteria used to establish eligibility for participation in the WIC program, this chapter presents evidence of low-income, or poverty, as a predisposing nutrition risk factor for women, infants, and children.\n\nDefinition of Poverty\nConsiderable controversy exists over how to define and measure poverty. A recent expert panel defined poverty as ''economic deprivation," reflecting inadequate economic resources for the consumption of basic goods and services (NRC, 1995). Poverty standards are generally called absolute measures and are based on the assumption that there is some objective minimum level of either income or consumption such that if economic resources are less than this minimum standard, individuals and families do not have adequate resources to satisfy their basic needs (Ruggles, 1990). Families and individuals are classified as being in poverty if their incomes are less than official poverty thresholds. The poverty measure was initially constructed by determining the cost of a nutritionally adequate low-cost food plan (then the Economy Food Plan, now the
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As a matter of fact, I am a member of a group that helps people.It's called people helping people in need.I will leave the link for my source.Other then that I love helping people and wish more people would help to end hunger and sufferage.
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Look for your local Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program.  They assist people in going back to work regardless of their income level or felony background (although they do want you to disclose it).\n\nYou can also contact the county welfare office.  There are people who are getting food stamps/cash assistance and are required to work in exchange for those services.  Someone in the welfare office assigns them to WEP.  That WEP Case Worker will be able to tell you where people can get jobs if they have felonies.  Your local prison will also tell you.  They usually have a back to work program and can tell you where they place their guys.  Good luck!
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Government needs less programs, that are more efficient, and to eliminate the pigs who suckle and abuse the programs.\n\nIn my life time I have been on WIC and unemployment.  Never abused either.\n\nI was in the military not making a lot of money and my wife couldn't work, Dr's orders.  So we got on the WIC to get some extra milk and peanut butter, only cost government maybe a few hundred the whole time we were on.\n\nUnemployment was something I got after I left the military and couldnt get a job right away and had to pay rent.  ONly cost the government a few thousand.\n\nI am a Republican.  I voted for Bush in 2000.  I'm not some crazy communist.\n\nI think the safety nets are neccessary for people and government exists to ensure that people don't fall through the cracks.\n\nSo lets just consolidate some of the things, get better service, and get rid of the abuse.\n\nI think most people would agree with that idea.\n\nIts sickening when you hear that welfare agencies are advertising that they need more people to go on welfare so they don't lose the funding the next year.  That isn't what the welfare was supposed to be.
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Hopefully its not for you, because if you have internet you shouldnt be getting food stamps.  Otherwise look at socialservices.gov
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yourquestionwouldappeartobeincompletepleaserestateandmaybewecanhelpyouormaybeyoucouldtry\n\nhttp://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
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We need programs for the poor.  But we need to ask ourselves if the Food Stamp program is the best way to do that?\n\nHow much of our tax dollars go into the food stamp program?  \n$27.5 billion from Federal Tax \n$6 billion in admin. costs paid by the states\n$33.5 billion Total spent\n\nHow much actually makes it to people as food stamps?\n$21.5 billion in payouts.  \n\nThat means only 67 cents of every government dollar goes to help the people.\n\nThe LOWEST graded food bank type charity managed to get 87 cents of every dollar to the people.  \n\nAnd the food stamp program doesn't have to do any fundraising like charities do! \n\nSomeone gets laid off, it takes months to start getting food stamps.  Food banks would be able to address the need quickly.\n\nMany people sell their food stamps for cash, 50cents on the dollar.  It would be harder to do that with a can of green beans.\n\nMany people use food stamps to buy junk food.  Food banks would be able to limit that.\n\nJust because something needs to be done, doesn't mean the government should be the one to do it.  They usually manage to mess it all up.
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Free food. I used to work at a grocery store and we'd all just write stuff off if we were hungry. Managers too.
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At times we are not given that choice like the fact that the government is running ads on Spanish TV Telling  illegals that they can get food stamps.So sometimes we aren't told about it until we find out about it.Then Americans get very very upset and rightly so.