How to help close the hunger gap

1. Explain what the four factors of poverty are and how they impact one’s life.

It can shorten your life span and cause trama and anxiety which can pop up later in life to make your life harder. It can also make you depressed in your later years because of the trama.

2. Explain how the cycle of poverty works.

You are born into a poor family then you can’t get a good education so you can’t get a good job, so then you can’t get a lot of money so then you have a child and then it restarts.

3. How do we help people get healthy food cheaply (make sure your answer is realistic)?

We can dedicate some more money to getting food and money to people that are in poverty instead of giving that money to other things. Like maybe give a little less to the military or something like that.

What government policy suggestions do you have?

Try to put money to the things that matter more like the health and schooling of Americans other than unneeded things.

What changes can you/we make to help?

We can raise money and give back to homeless people. Maybe we can have a fundraiser and raise some money by selling cookies or something like that, we can volunteer at places that help people in need too.

If I were on SNAPS…

1. What is SNAPS?

If you don’t have enough money for food thank you can get on food stamps, aka SNAPS.

2. What is the average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS?

Around $9.80 per week.

3. On average, I spend around $49 on food per week.

4. My life would be different if I were on SNAPS because…

Then I wouldn’t be able to eat everything that I would want to eat. Then it would make me less healthy because the less healthy food is less expensive so I would be eating more of that impacting my health greatly. I wouldn’t be able to eat as much too and because I am growing it will impact my growth. Also, I won’t be able to play for school because I won’t have a lot of money, so I won’t get a good education, and I won’t make any friends If I don’t go to school.