Lorena Andrade homeless essay

Lorena Andrade

Word Count: 523

Homelessness

In the article, A Decade of Change: Measuring the Extent, Depth and Severity of food Insecurity, by Kelly Stamper Balistreri, it mentions how the United States suffers a great amount of hunger and poverty. At the beginning of the article it was addressed how there was a significant difference between hungriness between Whites and those of a colored race. The White race has somewhere between 12% and 16% less uncertainty of food, or of where food will come next. In addition, two factors that go hand in hand, and for the most part, one causes the other is having no food and poor health conditions.  Having no food causes to be in poor health conditions. There was a project that was conducted about 3 times and it took about 3 years every trail, and the goal was to see how fast SNAP recipients finished their food, and how long it took for them to be able to have more. The project was mainly targeted to those recipients that claimed to be a low-income family. Also, there was two different groups, one with children and the other without. It checked on how recipients would react/ do when they no longer had money or SNAP to buy more food. The results for this project was that African Americans with children, were the most uncertain when they no longer had food, meaning that between the three trials there wasn't much change. For the Whites, with children, the three trials ranged between 30.6, 33.3, and 36.4, not a massive change. In addition, for Hispanics, with children, there was a big difference either. On the other hand, for those African Americans without children, they were at a higher disadvantage for not getting many recourses. The three ethnicities, without children, were much at less than those with children, but again between the three trials they were pretty stable. Over all there was a massive difference between those who lacked of food with or without having children, but based on their category didn't have much changed between the trials.

The second article was Understanding Food Insecurity Among Latino Immigrant Families in Rural American, by Yoshie Sano and colleagues. The methods used in this article were mainly Latino immigrants who were also a part of the Rural Families Speak project. They took a sample of these members from about 17 different states from the United States. Some of the members were second generation in the US and others were first generation. One of the goals from this project was to be able to know the obstacles these families face. A finding was that members of the project who had a lower monthly income had more of a struggle to have food. While those others that still were low income families but had a higher income didn't have the same struggle. One factor that caused this was the cost of housing. Some paid more than others and it was a great difference. Lastly, another factor was the families' immigration status. This was very important because without legal status here it became difficult for them to have a job and provide food.