How to help close the hunger gap

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Posted by dgray21 | Posted in Social Studies | Posted on February 20, 2020

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

The four factors are: Health, Education, Family and Housing and Geography. All of them connect to eachother and eventually lead into poverty if the amount of each is low conditions.

2. Explain how the cycle of poverty works.

The cycle of poverty goes like this: First you start happy healthy with a nice life. Then you end up getting very sick or break something so you now have t stay at the hospital for a while. This makes you get less money from your job because you are not there and less money leads to poverty.

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

We ask farmers to start hiring assistants so we can start harvesting crops more efficiently and get more food from crops before they all die out. We could also start more farms for more people who need jobs so we can grow more crops.

What government policy suggestions do you have?

Maybe we need to ask the government to put in some money to start all those new farms.

What changes can you/we make to help?

Build a greenhouse. With a greenhouse or multiple greenhouses, we can grow food for the local community. Then we can also donate supplies to places like the hunger task force.

Defend your answer.

If we can’t get enough money to start real farms we have to start small. Using a greenhouse we can get started with farming jobs and once we have enough money we can make it bigger and grow more crops.

If I were on SNAPS…

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Posted by dgray21 | Posted in Social Studies | Posted on February 6, 2020

1. What is SNAPS?

Snaps is a program that helps people without food or people with not enough money to get food to get food.

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

The average monthly benefit is $256

3. On average, I spend $27 on food per week.

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

Then I would be able to afford more food and not die of starvation.