{"id":3806,"date":"2006-11-17T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T00:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2006-11-18T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:43:18","slug":"35-million-americans-no-longer-living-in-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3806","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; CNN: 35 Million Americans No Longer Living in Hunger But in &#8216;Low Food Security&#8217; Situations (Thanks to Bush Admin&#8217;s Orwellian USDA Reclassification)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/novNfeb-8Sk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/novNfeb-8Sk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/embed><\/object>Christine Romans reports for <em>Lou Dobbs Tonight<\/em> that more than 35 million Americans were struggling with hunger until the USDA relabeled the tracking category &#8220;low food security.&#8221;  Thus, close to 12% of Americans now live with &#8220;food insecurity&#8221; issues.  The report is unclear on whether or not more than a tenth of the country is still having problems with hunger.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the name change, however, the Bush administration also has plans to cut in half the number of Americans living with &#8220;low food security&#8221; by 2010.  Considering that poverty and food insecurity levels have risen throughout Bush&#8217;s presidency, we assume the administration expects the bulk of the plan to kick in over the latter two years.  <\/p>\n<p>Lou Dobbs summed up the situation better than one would think possible: &#8220;That is disgusting&#8230;These are just abject idiots.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Christine Romans reports for Lou Dobbs Tonight that more than 35 million Americans were struggling with hunger until the USDA relabeled the tracking category &#8220;low food security.&#8221; Thus, close to 12% of Americans now live with &#8220;food insecurity&#8221; issues. The report is unclear on whether or not more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn","category-lou-dobbs","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}