How to help close the hunger gap

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

Education because some people in poverty can’t afford basic education or they live in a area where there isn’t good education.

Housing because some people can’t afford housing.

Food because if you don’t have money you can’t buy food and then you can die because you don’t have food.

Family because if you family doesn’t have money for education you can’t go to school and if you don’t have good education in your family history it’s possible people could get a bad education.

2. Explain how the cycle of poverty works.

no money for food,bad health conditions–lack of education–lack of opportunity–low income.

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

We can make other things cheaper for example (education, and living in houses/housing) so people have ore money for food. We wan send letters to the government and write down ideas to make things cheaper.

What government policy suggestions do you have?

Make things cheaper so there’s less people in poverty.

If I were on SNAPS…

1. What is SNAPS? SNAPS is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program a federal nutrition assistance program.

2. What is the average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS? The average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS is $126.00

3. On average, I spend _________on food per week. On average I spend about $568.20 per month.

4. My life would be different if I were on SNAPS because. The monthly benefit on snap is $126.00 and I spend more in a month then that on average.