Please remember on this day of thanks that there are starving children in Evanston & Chicago. Be grateful for what you’ve got.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
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I’m thankful for my family, my good health, good fortune, friends, and my Wildcat family.
I’m thankful for my family, my good health, good fortune, friends, and my Wildcat family.
Yes, indeed. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
To whom much is given, much is required.
To whom much is given, much is required.
Happy thanksgiving to all my die-hard fellow Cat fans! Here’s hoping for a big ten victory on Saturday and a better year next year!
Great question Eurocat. Over 16 million (1 in 5) children in the US struggle with access to food every year, amongst nearly 50 million Americans in general:
https://mashable.com/2016/07/14/child-hunger-united-states/
So if you take a random sampling of kids in any area, about 20% will starve at some point this year. Evanston has 75,000 people so close to 11,000 overall will struggle with access to food over the next year.
For my part I donate cash annually to a few food banks around Thanksgiving. I tend to focus on one locally, one where I went to high school, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Given it’s Thanksgiving, here’s the link:
http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/
And for those further north, here’s an equally worthy cause: the Northern Illinois Food Bank:
https://solvehungertoday.org/
‘Tis the season. Go Cats.
Thank you for the reply!
To me, a missed meal here or there, while a terrible thing, is not starvation.
The US unemployment rate is like 3 percent or so. Turn that around and that means 97 percent of people have gigs. I know many many business people who are desperate - they cant find workers! A friend of mine - a millionaire! - towels down cars at his car wash place here on Long Island. He can't find people and is willing to pay over 20 dollars an hour and the guys keep the tips. All he gets are ex convicts who apply and he hires them but they almost never last because as a whole they are self destructive with alcohol or narcotics. (One in twenty or so will be an exception)
Starvation, in my book, is what elderly poor people experience in Russia, one bowl of pea soup and a slice of bread per day. Saw it with my own eyes when I was there.
50 million starving in America? Not buying it. I know a car wash guy they can call.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/0...t-officials-say-everything-is-about-to-change
To me, a missed meal here or there, while a terrible thing, is not starvation.
The US unemployment rate is like 3 percent or so. Turn that around and that means 97 percent of people have gigs. I know many many business people who are desperate - they cant find workers! A friend of mine - a millionaire! - towels down cars at his car wash place here on Long Island. He can't find people and is willing to pay over 20 dollars an hour and the guys keep the tips. All he gets are ex convicts who apply and he hires them but they almost never last because as a whole they are self destructive with alcohol or narcotics. (One in twenty or so will be an exception)
Starvation, in my book, is what elderly poor people experience in Russia, one bowl of pea soup and a slice of bread per day. Saw it with my own eyes when I was there.
50 million starving in America? Not buying it. I know a car wash guy they can call.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/0...t-officials-say-everything-is-about-to-change
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Well this may end up on the rant board, but I couldn’t disagree with you more. I don’t find much need to spend time on Long Island (aside from Brooklyn), but I would argue your view is sheltered - or skewed. Keep in mind the unemployment rate only considers folks that are actively looking for work and that wages haven’t grown much while the cost of living certainly has.
I concur that things are much worse outside of America / wealthier counties, but poverty and starvation - or malnourishment if you prefer a more specific term - are even prevalent on Long Island.
If you step outside of Nassau or Suffolk you’ll meet folks like this married veteran & mother of two - one of many who struggle to make ends meet even if they are working. Perhaps you could tell your millionaire car washing friend to look her up and offer her a job?
https://www.longislandpress.com/201...holds-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-study-finds/
Thanksgiving has passed but Giving Tuesday is fast approaching. I can help you find food banks in Russia or other impoverished parts of the world if you promise to help. Not everyone was fortunate enough to attend a school like NU or has disposable income to waste on following a college football program.
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