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6th Annual Wisconsin Local Food Summit

January 27, 2012

1. Hunger Task Force Mission

2. Scope of Hunger & Poverty

3. Impact & Cost of Hunger

4. Food Banking

5. Public Policy Advocacy

www.hungertaskforce.org

Mission: Ending Hunger Today…Preventing Hunger Tomorrow

Founded: 1974…Grassroots task force on school breakfast

Services: Dual purpose agency

Anti-Hunger Advocacy Work


Mission: Ending Hunger Today…Preventing Hunger Tomorrow

Founded: 1974…Grassroots task force on school breakfast

Services: Dual purpose agency

Anti-Hunger Advocacy Work

Emergency Food Provision

(1982)


DEFINITIONS

“Food security exists when all people, at

all times, have physical, social and

economic access to sufficient, safe and

nutritious food to meet their dietary

needs and food preferences for an active

and healthy life.”

United Nation's Food and Agriculture

Organization

Food security for a household means access by all

members at all times to enough food for an active,

healthy life.

Food security includes at a minimum:

(1) the ready availability of nutritionally

adequate and safe foods, and

(2) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods

in socially acceptable ways

United States Department of Agriculture

Very Low Food Security:

One or more people in the household

were hungry over the course of the

year because of the inability to afford

enough food.

United States Department of Agriculture

SCOPE OF

POVERTY

AND

HUNGER

NATIONAL STATISTICS - 2011

48.8 million people living in food insecure households (up from 36.2 million in 2007)

32.4 million adults 16.2 million children

17 million people lived in households that were considered to have “very low food security”

Data Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture 2012

NATIONAL STATISTICS

Very low food security had been getting worse even

before the current recession.

o The number of people in the Very low food category

in 2008 was more than double the number in 2000.

o Black (25.1 percent) and Hispanic (26.2 percent)

households experienced food insecurity at far higher

rates than the national average.

Data Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture 2011

NATIONAL STATISTICS

Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger Food Resource Action Council / Gallup Poll Phone Survey

“Have there been times in the past

twelve months when you did not have

enough money to buy food that you or

your family needed?”

Data Source: Food Hardship: A Closer Look at

Hunger, FRAC, October 2011

NATIONAL STATISTICS

Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger

Food Hardship Rates for the Nation

2008 17.8 percent of households

2009 18.3 percent

2010 18.0 percent

Data Source: Food Hardship: A Closer Look at

Hunger, FRAC, August 2011

NATIONAL STATISTICS

“Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger”

Food Hardship Rates Higher for Households With Children

2009 - 2010

23.4 percent of Households with Children

- vs. -

14.9 percent of Households without Children

Data Source: Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger,

Food Resource Action Council, August 2011

WISCONSIN STATISTICS


Food Hardship Rates for Wisconsin Households

2009 - 2010


- vs. -




2011 Federal Poverty Level Guidelines

Persons

in Household Annual Income Per Month

Hourly Wage

1 $10,890 $907.50 $5.67

2 14,710 1225.83 7.66

3 18,530 1544.17 9.65

4 22,350 1862.50 11.64

5 26,170 2180.83 13.63

6 29,990 2499.17 15.62

7 33,810 2817.50 17.61

8 37,630 3135.83 19.60

For each additional

person, add 3,820 318.33 1.99


Wisconsin’s

Poverty

Population:

740,000


Lambeau Field Holds 72,928

People

Wisconsin’s

Childhood

Poverty

Population:

254,000

Wisconsin’s

740,000 Poor

Residents Would

Fill 10 Lambeau

Stadiums


Wisconsin’s 254,000 Poor

Children Would Fill 3 & 1/2

Lambeau Stadiums

22% of Wisconsin families with children

struggle to afford enough food.

39% Wisconsin children currently eligible for free or reduced price school meals at their public schools Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2012



School District

Milwaukee

Green Bay

Prairie du Chien

Superior

LaCrosse

Eau Claire

Appleton

Waukesha

Northern Ozaukee

Free / Reduced Price Meal Rates

2012 vs. 2002

77% 66%

58% 32%

54% 25%

48% 36%

47% 35%

40% 15%

38% 11%

26% 15%

20% 6%

What do you think the free/reduced

price rate is for students in . . .

Wisconsin Department of Public

Instruction, 2012

HUNGER TASK FORCE NETWORK:

Supply: 60 Food Pantries

14 Soup Kitchens

8 Homeless Shelters

Demand: 58,776 hot meals

(2011 Monthly Average) 36,160 food pantry clients

2.8% increase in pantry visits

Source: Hunger Task Force - January 2012

CALLS TO 211:

The number one reason people call is to locate a

food pantry

21 percent of 211 calls in 2010

Almost 28,000 calls in 2010

Source: 211 Impact – March 2011


WISCONSIN:

829,720 people received FoodShare benefits in November 2011

1 in 8 (13.6%) Wisconsin residents receive FoodShare

7% increase over past year 109% since recession started in December, 2007

MILWAUKEE COUNTY:

237,323 people received FoodShare benefits in November 2011

1 in 5 county residents get FoodShare

10% increase over the past year 65% since recession started in December, 2007

Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services, December 2011

$116.49 . . . Average Monthly

FoodShare benefit

$124.90 . . . Minimum cost to feed

a family of four for

one week.


What’s Your

Families’

Weekly Food

Budget?

WISCONSIN STATISTICS


Food Hardship Rates for Wisconsin Households

2009 - 2010


- vs. -




HUNGER’S

COST

HUMAN IMPACT

Joint Analysis: Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis

University and the Food Research and Action Center

Pregnant women who are undernourished:

Are more likely to have low-birthweight

babies

Experience higher infant mortality rates

On Mothers and Babies

HUMAN IMPACT


University and the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)

Hungry Children Suffer:

Two to four times as many individual health problems Stunting (low height for age) in children results from inadequate nutrition Higher rates of iron-deficiency anemia

On the Health of Children

HUMAN IMPACT



Hunger slows / delays the cognitive development

of children

Hungry children are more likely to be ill and absent

from school

Hunger diminishes children's ability to learn in

school

On the Education of Children

HUMAN IMPACT



Hungry children are more likely to ‘act out’ / cause

behavioral problems in school

Hungry children are less likely to interact with

other people or explore or learn from their

surroundings. This interferes with their ability to

learn from a very early age.

On the Education of Children

HUMAN IMPACT



Hunger causes lost knowledge, brainpower

and productivity for the nation

Hunger and malnutrition exacerbate chronic

and acute diseases and speed the onset of

degenerative diseases among the elderly.

On Adults

ECONOMIC IMPACT

Center for American Progress | Hunger in America: Suffering We Are All Paying For, October 2011, pg 9

Table 2

America’s hunger bill

Costs of hunger, 2007 and 2010 (In billions of 2010 dollars)

Component 2007 2010 Increased

cost

Percent increase

Illness costs $98.40 $130.50 $32.10 33%

Education and related costs $13.90 $19.20 $5.30 38%

Charity costs $13.20 $17.80 $4.60 35%

Total hunger bill $125.50 $167.50 $42.00 33%

ECONOMIC IMPACT

Center for American Progress | Hunger in America: Suffering We Are All Paying For, October 2011, pg. 1

“This $167.5 billion does not include the

cost of the Supplemental Nutrition

Assistance Program and the other key

federal nutrition programs, which run at

about $94 billion a year.”

TOTAL COST: $261.5 billion dollars

“My daughter is 10. She says, ‘Daddy, do you

wanna talk about it,’ I just tell her to eat up.”

“It’s about sacrificing. I guess you could say I’m

fasting ’cus I haven’t ate in 2 days.”


“I’m only 22. I had to

drop out of college to

get a job. I won’t stop

dreaming though.”

“I don’t have anyone to help me. One

week I fell down my porch stairs and

couldn’t get to the pantry. I don’t wanna

talk about how I ate that month.”

“If I make one dollar

over what SSI says,

they will cut my

disability off! If I get

food stamps I can’t pay

my rent. Rent or

food?”


“It’s hard to

make $100

worth of

groceries

stretch for a

month when

you have 2

boys. Most

days, I’ll skip

meals so my

boys can eat.”

“I’m a first

timer. I’m

ashamed to

come here. I

feel like

there are so

many other

people who

need this

food more

than I do.”



ENDING HUNGER TODAY

Federal Commodities

Purchasing

Donations

Farm & Fish Hatchery

82 Pantries,

Soup Kitchens &

Homeless Shelters

9.7 Million Lbs.

of Food in 2010 - 2011 Serving

9200+

Seniors

www.hungertaskforce.org 99 Sites

16% Increase Over

2009 - 2010

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PREVENTING HUNGER

TOMORROW

HTF

Advocacy

Citizen

Activists

Prevent

Hunger

Tomorrow


Summer Meals Women, Infants

and Children School Meals

Child and Adult Care

Food Program

Food Share The Emergency Food

Assistance Program


2000: Brought EBT technology to Fondy Food Center – increasing FoodShare customers access to fresh, healthy produce

2009 – Present: Tested and implemented a Self-Service Site strategy that allows FoodShare customers to manage their own cases using internet technology at: Marcia P. Coggs Human Service Center

Robles Center

UMOS

2001 & 2011: Successfully resisted efforts by the state to privatize FoodShare


FOODSHARE AT RISK

Governor Scott Walker Executive Order # 2 created the

Governor's Commission on Waste, Fraud and Abuse

Final report was released Friday January 6th

FoodShare is a targeted


What Are the Commission’s

FoodShare Recommendations?

Photo ID

Charging a fee for

replacement Quest

cards

More frequent re-

certification

More paperwork

Republicans want to require photos on FoodShare, BadgerCare Plus cards Backers say it will cut fraud; others cite cost By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

May 5, 2011

Madison — Republican lawmakers want to reduce fraud by requiring photos on the

benefits cards used for food assistance and health care programs.

The proposed amendment to the state budget would require all participants in the programs to carry their photo on the FoodShare Quest card and BadgerCare Plus Forward card. In making the proposal Thursday, Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) and Rep. Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green) cited a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation raising concerns about FoodShare participants selling their benefits to others.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/mailto:[email protected]

FoodShare Advocacy - 2012:

Contact the Governor’s office and your state

representatives.

Tell them you are opposed to the report’s

recommendations that increase the size and

cost of state government.

Voices Against Hunger


Join

Voices members receive regular updates on hunger issues, and training in how to be advocates.


Hunger Task Force provides advocacy training for Voices members.

Kevin Ronnie

Hunger Task Force

201 S. Hawley Court

Milwaukee, WI 53214

(414) 238-6470

[email protected]


mailto:[email protected]

http://www.hungertaskforce.org/

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