With unemployment low and wages rising, the struggle for basic necessities like food should be easing. But those on the front lines of feeding the hungry say they are seeing the opposite.
  • @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
    3•1 year ago

    So it said “family of seven”, which probably means 5 children and 2 adults, or just as likely, 4 children, 2 adults and 1 elderly parent.

    The really weird thing about this is that even without making any sort of moral judgement, the numbers still don’t add up. For example, I have a family of 6 (and only 2 of those are my kids), and our grocery bill is between $150 and $200 a week (about $700 a month). How do you get to $2400 a month? What are you feeding them? Are you ordering takeout ever day? Because that would be stupid.

    • girlfreddy
      2•1 year ago

      If you read the article it states that her husband was deported back to Mexico, so it’s her and 6 kids.

      You also don’t know if she lives in a food desert where a single grocery store could charge whatever prices it wants because there’s no competition.