New York, NY – A new report just released says that more than a third of city residents have trouble affording food for their families.
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The survey found about three million New Yorkers are worried about putting food on the table, up nearly 50 percent from just three years ago.
A growing number of them are middle income families that earn between $25,000 and $75,000 a year.
The study also found that 1.7 million New Yorkers have no savings and wouldn't be able to afford food if they lost their jobs.
Currently, more than 1.1 million city residents receive food stamps, but advocates say an additional 750,000 are entitled to them. [NY1]
That’s my point! You can buy a box of macaroni for 50 cents or a dozen eggs for a little over a dollar and feed 6-8 people, but no, let’s go to McDonalds and spend 20-30 bucks instead. That makes a lot of sense. Where’s all that money coming from? I make a middle class salary and rarely go out to a fast food joint with my family, but they seem to have all this money to do so.
junk food makes you gain weight.
Mcdonalds and the like are cheap but make you fat.
You’d think that according to this report we’d have people walking around here looking like they came here starving from Africa, so why are so many of them overweight with cell phones and cable TV? All these ‘advocates’ who just make up figures as they go along so they can get more money for their fat salaries don’t count all the money that people make under the table.
you made me chuckle 🙂
Only 1.7 New Yorkers have no savings? That’s less than two people, not bad at all.