Homelessness on the Rise, SNAP cuts adding pain

A new survey says more than 20,000 people are homeless, in LA alone. Over 2,000 of them are under 15.

The SNAP / Food Stamps program is due to be cut by more than $4-billion, and the recent Budget deal by Congress means millions of people who have been unemployed for more than a year will lose their benefits right after Christmas.

So it's about to get a lot worse.

To be faced with a problem I know we can fix, and still be denied the means to even vaguely address it is frustrating to the point of incoherence...

Iowa Students Fight Local Hunger

Students in Iowa have just collected over 520,000lbs of food. Thanks to them, low-income families in the area will have a decent meal every day for about three months.

The Students have been doing this every year since 1986. So the question is this..

Why is it still up to them??