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Wednesday September 21st, 2011, 2:39pm
Source: Greater Chicago Food Depository
This article provides a first time look into the existence of hunger and food insecurity in the suburbs and the city of Chicago revealing profound differences. According to the Greater Chicago Food Depository, "Citywide, a staggering 20.6 percent of the population suffers from food insecurity, which is defined as reduced quality, variety or desirability in a diet that leads to disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake"(Krager, 2011). A map by the GCFD shows that the rates in Cook County suburbs are much lower, with a percentage of 15.4. However, the GCFD map displays Ford Heights at 55.5 percent, Robbins at 45 percent, and Dixmoor at 38.7 percent, revealing the highest amounts of poverty in the 119 communities of Cook County. Due to the subsiding economy this number will continue to rise and more and more families will plunge into the cycle of food insecurity. The Greater Chicago Food Depository states, “Roughly 11 percent of Chicago is currently unemployed and there is a large number of city residents who are either working part-time or no longer seeking work. More than one third of all food insecure individuals live in a household earning more than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, meaning they do not qualify for assistance programs like SNAP or WIC” (Krager, 2011).
Similarly, Ranks ideas in “Why American Poverty Affects Us All” and the Greater Chicago Food Depository map, both address the issue of poverty with the purpose of creating positive change in the world. Rank covers the nature of ‘American poverty’ through discussing contrasts between the words and poverty as a structural failure. He also offers cause for concern in terms of our own self-interests and essence of citizenship, along with creating fundamental change through presenting ideas of new paradigms and future directions. Both Rank and the GCFD's purpose is to cause awareness through making public, the existence of family suffering by revealing the rates of food insecurity in the Chicago area and reporting the global issues of poverty. Rank provides solutions and explanations to hunger and homelessness in society and the GCFD provides the facts, both offering up the possibility for any form of assistance along with addressing the need for improvement and action.
Source: Greater Chicago Food Depository
Similarly, Ranks ideas in “Why American Poverty Affects Us All” and the Greater Chicago Food Depository map, both address the issue of poverty with the purpose of creating positive change in the world. Rank covers the nature of ‘American poverty’ through discussing contrasts between the words and poverty as a structural failure. He also offers cause for concern in terms of our own self-interests and essence of citizenship, along with creating fundamental change through presenting ideas of new paradigms and future directions. Both Rank and the GCFD's purpose is to cause awareness through making public, the existence of family suffering by revealing the rates of food insecurity in the Chicago area and reporting the global issues of poverty. Rank provides solutions and explanations to hunger and homelessness in society and the GCFD provides the facts, both offering up the possibility for any form of assistance along with addressing the need for improvement and action.
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