How to Help Close the Hunger Gap

Explain What the Four Factors of Poverty are and How they Impact One’s Life.

Education-If you dont have a good education, its hard to get a job that can pay your bills.

Geography-Depending on where you live, the education might not be so good, and you might have a lot of mental health issues due to what you have seen in your neighborhood.

Family Structure-If your family doesnt have a lot of money, or a good education, or good health, its hard to get any of those things for yourself, which then makes it more likely for you to be in poverty.

Health-If your health isnt good, it could be genetic and/or you dont have enough money to pay for healthy food and/or you dont have enough money to pay for medical bills when sick, thefore resulting in getting even more sick due to the treatment that you are recieving.

Explain How the Cycle of Poverty Works.

Once you are in the cycle of poverty, it is very hard to get out of it. This is because if you dont have a lot of money, it is hard to live in a good area, therefore get a education, therefore get a job that pays enough money so you can pay all your bills. Some of those bills include medical bills/ money for healthy food and its really hard to be healthy if you dont have enough money to pay for those bills. This is because you could possibly become even more sick due to not eating the right food, or not getting the medical care you need, which then makes it harder for you to work. Then if you cant work, you dont have enough money and then you cant pay your bills. As you can see, this cycle continues to happen and it is very hard to get out of.

How Do we Help People Get Healthy Food Cheaply?

Some people can qualify for SNAPS (money from the goverment to help you pay for healthy food if you cant afford it on your own). Also, my class has talked about creating a green house. I think that there is already money donated from last year’s class that we can put towards creating the greenhouse. Ths green house helps people to get healthy food cheaply because a green house contains healthy food and we could sell it to people for a fairly cheap price. We could put adds around the community to publicize about the greenhouse so people could come help or buy food. For other people who cant get to the greenhouse due to not having transportation, we can collect some of the food from the greenhouse and give it to food pantries so that the people who cant get to our greenhouse, can go to the food pantries and get the food there.

What Government Policy Suggestions do you Have?

Maybe more people could go on SNAPS if the people who were on SNAPS bought food in bulk. This way, overtime people who are on SNAPS will be getting more food with using less of the goverments money. Then the goverment could give all the money saved from buying the food in bulk to help more people on SNAPS. This way, the goverement is spending the same amount of money, yet helping more people for a longer amount of time.

What Changes Can you/we Make to Help?

Maybe we can do the changes I said above.

 

If I Were on SNAPS…

What is SNAPS?

SNAPS is when you get help from the goverment to pay for your food beacuse you cant afford it on your own.

What is the average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS?

The average monthly benefit for someone who is on snaps is $126.

On average, I spend $200 on food per month.

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

My life would be different because my portions would not be as much and I couldnt get all the same brands of food.