re: One in six children go hungry in the US, true or false?

People "know" what they know, and there isn't much chance of changing anyone's mind about anything these days.

So, I'm not even going to try.

I will, though, point out a few things that I know to be true, because I've seen them with my own eyes.

1. Some folks holler about the problem of obesity, but they seldom mention that healthy food simply costs more.

2. In many areas, there aren't grocery stores. There are Dollar Generals and Family Dollars. People think those places have low prices. They don't. They have "smaller" products. Couple days ago, I didn't want to drive to the bigger town down the road, so I went to the small town and Family Dollar. Needed some treats for my dogs. At home, I buy the big bags of Pupperoni, 30-something ounces for $16. At Family Dollar, I could only get small bags of treats (junk that the dogs won't even hardly eat) for $5. Per ounce, expensive comparatively.

3. Life in rural America has its higher costs. Electricity is much more expensive, for example. The baseline price at this cabin, the price I pay in the months when no one is here, is $42. At home, in a "city", where I'm running AC on blast in the summer, my bill is scarcely more than $100. And, no, it doesn't matter that the same house would cost three times as much were it located in a big city as opposed to out in the country. The struggling folks we're talking about aren't buying houses anyway.

4. One last thing. Kids and food. Some parents are trash. No doubt. That's why all public schools should feed kids at least two meals a day. All year. Bypass the terrible parents. But, shockingly, many people don't support that. They abhor feeding poor kids. That, I'll never understand.