Does Capitalism Work?

Capitalism at work

1 According to one recent study, approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States were living below the poverty line in 2010.
2 According to the U.S. Census, the number of children living in poverty has gone up by about 2 million in just the past 2 years.
3 Today, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
4 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.
5 It is estimated that up to half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.
6 More than 44 million Americans are currently on food stamps. That is an all-time record and that number is 18 million higher than it was back at the beginning of 2007.
7 48 percent of the 44 million Americans that are now on food stamps are children.
8 According to Feeding America's 2010 hunger study, more than 37 million Americans are now being served by food pantries and soup kitchens.
9 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.
10 According to Feeding America, 50.2 million Americans lived in "food insecure households" during 2009.
11 Even with tens of millions of Americans on food stamps there are still large numbers of Americans that go hungry each night. According to the BBC, 15% of all U.S. households experienced a shortage of food at some point during 2009.
12 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.
13 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled in at least one government anti-poverty program.
14 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States. Statistically, there are more children in poor households than in wealthy ones.
15 Child hunger is a major problem all over the world. Approximately 1 billion people around the world go to bed hungry each night.
16 A lack of food among pregnant women in developing countries results in one out of every 6 babies being born with a low birth weight.
17 Approximately 28 percent of all children in developing countries are considered to be underweight or have had their growth stunted as a result of malnutrition.
18 More than 3 billion people, close to half the world's population, live on less than 2 dollar a day.
19 Somewhere in the world someone starves to death every 3.6 seconds, and 75 percent of those are children under the age of five.
20 Almost 9 million children around the world died before they reached their fifth birthday during 2008. Approximately a third of all of those deaths were attributed to hunger and malnutrition

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