Hunger Report
If you recall, the administration was criticized for its decision to hold off on the U.S. Hunger Report until after the elections. Today it popped into my head and I had to look it up and see if it had come out. It had. While the headline reads that hunger is down from 38 million to 35 million, as always, you can make numbers look however you want them to look. There has been criticizism over the new wording, replacing hunger with “food insecurity.” At any rate, the statistic that struck me was this:
• There were more people with very low food security - those who are worst off. The number was 10.8 million, up from 10.7 million in 2004.
Very low food security? WTF does that mean? Oh, those who are worst off? How about starving? There’s a word for you. So, overall, the very low food security number is up from 2004. The low food security number is down.
Who thinks up these God awful terms?
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