West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: MarkCruz on March 25, 2008, 05:37:27 PM
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Nearly one in 10 Ohioans now receives food stamps, the highest number in the state's history.
Caseloads have almost doubled just since 2001, with 1.1 million residents now collecting benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Low wages, unemployment and the rising cost of groceries, gasoline and other necessities are to blame for financial hardships facing many Ohio families.
Caseloads have been rising steadily in the past seven years, said Brian Harter, spokesman for the state agency which oversees the food-stamp program.
"Look at unemployment during this time," he said.
Ohio's jobless rate is 5.3 percent, up from 4.4 percent in 2001.
"The economy and loss of manufacturing jobs are at the root of what's going on. But lately (it's) the rising cost of transportation and food -- people who were barely getting by, are not getting by," said Jack Frech, director of the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services.
"It has pressed folks to the edge to have to rely on food stamps."
Advocates estimate another 500,000 Ohioans are eligible but not enrolled in the food-stamp program.
Individuals in households with incomes up to 130 percent of the federal poverty level and with assets no greater than $2,000 in most cases are eligible for food stamps. That's earnings of no more than $22,880 a year for a family of three.
Recipients receive $100 a month. The federal government pays for the benefits while the state covers administrative costs.
But as the price of milk, fruits and other groceries climb, advocates say, recipients can buy less and less with that $100.
"Food stamps provide only about $1 per person, per meal. Who in the world is buying groceries with that?" asked Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Bank.
On average, food stamps are now providing less than two weeks of groceries.
"There's the presumption that folks have the cash to make up the rest. Well, they don't," Frech said.
Not surprisingly, food pantries and soup kitchens across the state have been reporting record demands. Like the families they serve, they, too, cannot keep pace.
In central Ohio, demand at the Mid-Ohio Food Bank in January was up 14 percent over the same period a year ago, with 120,000 requests for food.
The increased demand coupled with rising food costs and fewer donations have forced the food bank to reduce the five-day supply of food it had been giving out to a three-day supply.
"Milk is up 25 percent," said Mid-Ohio president Matt Habash. "Applesauce, a big staple at food banks, has gone from $9 to $15 a case."
In other areas of the state, pantries with their supplies depleted have been forced to temporarily close.
"The shortages," Hamler-Fugitt said, "are a double whammy for people who have been relying on food stamps and pantries."
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EYE SEE YOU TRAUMA, REAL AMERICAN, HOLLER AT ME THRU PAYPAL I'LL HELP YOUR BROKE HICK ASSES WITH GROCERIES
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:o
damn
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I don't think Trauma lives in Ohio. Well Ohio does have a large black population.
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Well Ohio does have a large black population.
Demographics of OHIO
2005 (total population)
86.27 % White
12.66 % Black
0.66 % AIAN
1.68 % Asian
0.07 % NHPI
AIAN is American Indian or Alaskan Native
NHPI is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
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Lots of white trash then I guess. When I was there I saw loads of black people though.
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Lots of white people are losing factory jobs that have helped states like Penn, Ohio and Indiana, and they are having a hard time adjusting. These are people that didn't have a job, that 20 years ago they went out, looked for work and found the local factory that gave them Union wages, health care and enough money to buy a house, car and raise kids in a community that was safe and had good schools. Now these jobs moved to Mexico and China, people are outta work and unless you have a college degree, your shit outta luck. Ohio's issues are not just black people, yeah black people traditionally are the ones that lost factory jobs, ruined Southside Chicago, but now it's effecting white people too.
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Lots of white trash then I guess. When I was there I saw loads of black people though.
12.66% is about national average, right?
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Lots of white trash then I guess. When I was there I saw loads of black people though.
12.66% is about national average, right?
NOT NATIONAL AVERAGE BUT IT'S THE NATIONAL PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS.
NOT TOO MANY IN CALI. THAT'S WHY DOGGYSTYLE WAS AFRAID IN OHIO.
USA
Race/Ethnicity (2005)
White 73.9%
African American 12.4%
Asian 4.4%
Native American and Alaskan Native 0.8%
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 0.1%
Other/multiracial 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 14.8%
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Lots of white trash then I guess. When I was there I saw loads of black people though.
12.66% is about national average, right?
NOT NATIONAL AVERAGE BUT IT'S THE NATIONAL PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS.
NOT TOO MANY IN CALI. THAT'S WHY DOGGYSTYLE WAS AFRAID IN OHIO.
USA
Race/Ethnicity (2005)
White 73.9%
African American 12.4%
Asian 4.4%
Native American and Alaskan Native 0.8%
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 0.1%
Other/multiracial 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 14.8%
what are you talking about you tool, i go to school in south central L.A.
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LOL I'M TOOL ?
Lots of white trash then I guess. When I was there I saw loads of black people though.
I KNOW YOU LIVE IN LA, RETARD. I WAS REFERRING TO YOUR POST^
OR IS IT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OF OHIO ;D
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I guess you didn't understand that I was trying to imply that that the area I go to school in is covered with chocolate people so why would I be scared in Ohio.
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thats a fuckin shame lazy ass bums
the houses out there you could get a house in the burbs for 60-70 k
my boy got a 2 story for 110,000$ and he moved from LA thats a damn shame though
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the area I go to school in is covered with chocolate people so why would I be scared in Ohio.
cus youre a fag?
cus you lock your doors and get to the freeway as fast as possible when you leave school?
I been to USC, the neighborhood surrounding it aint that bad. Unless you cross the freeway...which you wouldnt ;D
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I don't think Trauma lives in Ohio.
yeah, isnt he in North Carolina or some shit?
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you been to USC in the day time and the area isnt that bad, that area is terrible.. go outside the village a little bit you got the bloods and the Dead end harpy 13s .. the Harpys extort college students, rob them they run that whole drug area over there but anyways
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you been to USC in the day time and the area isnt that bad, that area is terrible.. go outside the village a little bit you got the bloods and the Dead end harpy 13s .. the Harpys extort college students, rob them they run that whole drug area over there but anyways
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You fucking kidding tone? people get jacked here numerous times a day. There are these crime report's that get sent out to students I can forward them to you if you don't believe that shit.
And yeah houses in Ohio are really cheap. My cousin has a 3 bedroom, 2 story house with a basement and a huge front and backyard, separate garage and all that in one of the nicest suburbs and it was like something $170,000. You couldn't find shit like that ANYWHERE in the state of California
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You fucking kidding tone? people get jacked here numerous times a day. There are these crime report's that get sent out to students I can forward them to you if you don't believe that shit.
And yeah houses in Ohio are really cheap. My cousin has a 3 bedroom, 2 story house with a basement and a huge front and backyard, separate garage and all that in one of the nicest suburbs and it was like something $170,000. You couldn't find shit like that ANYWHERE in the state of California
maybe youre right man. all i know is the times ive been up there, regardless where it was (South Central, Compton, Inglewood, etc)....its all the same shit. Neighborhoods are fucked from city to city. LA, bein on the map with the rap shit and the media gets a lot of attention....but the neighborhoods ive seen were no different then anywhere else yah know? I used to be up there alot when I was younger (and kinda stupid), banged out man. With the homies, flamed up, red rag hangin from the rear view...and nothin. Never expectin shit to pop off through places like Inglewood or Compton....but shit, even South Central, Slauson....nothin. I dunno, its been about a year since Ive even really been up in LA...maybe shits worse now.
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STOP DOWNLOADING INTERRACIAL GAY PORN AND APPLY FOR A JOB AT WAL-MART, CWALKER. YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO ALL WHITES.
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As desperate as those statistics obviously are for the people concerned, I hate to say it but when they fully reveal how the pass the parcel game in the credit derivatives market has unraveled, this will seem like a cake walk. The entire joke of a financial system is collapsing and of course as M Dogg has mentioned, American jobs are being sold out. The irony of course is that it's U.S corporations who packing up their legs and moving elsewhere.
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what the fuck white people using food stamps?!?!?! eye thought you guys were soo much superior than everybody else?? there has to be some mistake.....fuckin pathetic