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WHO?
CAUSES?
EFFECTS?
Unemployed and Long-term Unemployed
- Laid off
- Lack of part-time job due to age, over-qualified
- Sole wage earner in family with children
- Lack of education
- Company closed down, moved out of the city/state
- Inability to use new technology
- Language barriers
- Monthly unemployment checks run out
- Unable to type and or use internet
- Lack of health insurance
- Unable to meet health insurance premiums
- Unable to meet mortgage or rent payments
- Forced into bankruptcy
- Increased risk of illness and disease in family
- Depression and/or anxiety
- Fear and shame in not being able to care for family as they are accustomed to
- Low desire to learn new technology because of lack of education
Working Poor
- Part-time work only available
- Lack of education
- Earn low wages
- Transportation barriers
- Child care barriers
- Lack of affordable housing
- Disabled veterans
- Lack of stamina to work
- Increased susceptibility to illness
- Missed hours of work time
- Frustration and hopelessness
- Lost sense of responsibility
- Have a hard time making ends meet because of the cost of living
- Children are most affected because they do not have enough nutritional food
- Hunger has no racial boundaries nor economic boundaries
Families With Children
- Highest percentage of population in poverty
- Children unable to care for themselves
- Children have limited voices
- Children's needs are easily dismissed and overlooked
- Children are unable to access feeding programs and services
- Children experience impaired cognition leading to school failure
- Permanent brain damage
- Children have reduced ability to use or learn proper social skills
- Hungry children have behavioral problems
Seniors
- Don't have enough income to afford nutritious food
- Difficulty surviving on small fixed incomes
- Not able to find part-time jobs to supplement income
- Difficulty in paying for needed medications
- Lack of necessary medications makes eating unpleasant or difficult
- Increased hospitalization
- Seniors living alone have difficulty meeting expenses
- Increased number of hungry seniors
- Depression and/or anxiety
- Increased risk of illness and disease
- Increased visits to doctors and higher cost of medicine which they can't afford
- Seriously affects seniors living alone with no advocate
- Premature death
The Homeless
- Closing of institutions designed to care for disabled/children or victims of domestic violence
- Unemployment
- Alcohol/substance abuse
- Mentally disabled
- Hunger
- Increased risk of diseases
- Hopelessness
- Fear and/or depression
- Destructive choices
- Lost sense of responsibility
Minorities
- Discriminatory barriers
- Typically paid low wages
- Language barriers
- Barriers to educational opportunities
- Employment opportunities in today's hi-tech economy are very difficult
- Older men and women have difficulty finding part-time jobs
- Depression
- Uninsured and lack of medications
- Alienation
- Continued barriers to achievement
- Feelings of fear and sense of responsibility and pride
- Destructive choices
Disabled
- Cuts in funding to care for individuals
- Inability to feed themselves
- Lack of desire to eat
- Limited employment
- Depression
- Increased susceptibility to illness
- Missed hours of work time
- Frustration and hopelessness
- Lost sense of responsibility and pride
