Hunger relief advocates came to Congress last week and painted a bleak picture of a country struggling to meet an increased need for food assistance at a time of high unemployment. Soup kitchen workers are seeing new faces in line and charities are taking more calls for help.
The Congressional Budget Office had predicted that the recession would start to recover by the second half of 2009 without the government doing anything. Well we’ve spent all this money, it’s fair to see how it’s working out.
Per statistics from the Department of Labor
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