I'm wearing a specially-designed, long-sleeved green t-shirt today as part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week here at Lehigh University. It's honestly not something that I think about enough, and in the midst of a very major decision that my family is making this week, it is giving me pause to realize just how much we have.
Here are some facts on the back of our t-shirts:
100,000,000,000
pounds of edible food are thrown away in the US per year
3,500,000
US residents experience homelessness in a given year
800,000
Americans are homeless in any given night
21,000
Dollars per year is the poverty line for a family of four
6,300
People worldwide die each day from hunger-related causes
950
Children a year are housed in a shelter in the Lehigh Valley
97
Hours a week must be worked at minimum wage to afford rent
3
Dollars a day are given to people relying on food stamps
1
Person needed to start a hunger revolution
pounds of edible food are thrown away in the US per year
3,500,000
US residents experience homelessness in a given year
800,000
Americans are homeless in any given night
21,000
Dollars per year is the poverty line for a family of four
6,300
People worldwide die each day from hunger-related causes
950
Children a year are housed in a shelter in the Lehigh Valley
97
Hours a week must be worked at minimum wage to afford rent
3
Dollars a day are given to people relying on food stamps
1
Person needed to start a hunger revolution
