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The number of people below the official poverty thresholds numbered 36.1 million in 2005.
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About thriftymommy
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Hi! Thanks for stopping by! I'm a happily married social worker and I'm glad you stopped by to see what we're up to here in NJ! 
We are blessed with three children: 2 sons ages 13 & 8, and one daughter age 6.
My main focuses in this life are what I consider the real issues: like homelessness, unemployment, underemployment, a living wage instead of a minimum wage, poverty, hunger, disease, outrageous medical insurance premiums, social security collapse, medicare, medicaid, education for our children, higher education costs, ending violence on our streets. For some reason, we are blind to these issues unless it affects us directly...yet we spend without heed of the future.
I believe in equality and social justice. Justice for all means equal access for all. We were all once immigrants and today's heated debates on immigration reform has me saddened and sickened. Illegals are only illegal because our system is so mired in red tape. No human being should ever be called illegal just because they weren't born here.
Food Insecurity. A nice euphemism for hunger. An estimated thirty million children in the United States go to bed hungry every night. One hundred forty-five million children in the world go to bed hungry every night. Sixty million American families are believed to be homeless. Another thirteen million Americans live on our streets. (www.secondharvest.org) What a wealthy country we are! 
Please, do all you can to help others (and yourself) by donating to your local foodbanks. If you are in need, ask for help...even if it's painful or shameful. Let someone help you: there's no shame in needing another person's help. Support your local foodbank: your neighbor may need your help!!! "Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and 2004 at $44,389, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, the nation's official poverty rate rose from 12.5 percent in 2003 to 12.7 percent in 2004. The percentage of the nation's population without health insurance coverage remained stable, at 15.7 percent in 2004. The number of people with health insurance increased by 2.0 million to 245.3 million between 2003 and 2004, and the number without such coverage rose by 800,000 to 45.8 million."
Source: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/005647.html
My cries for social justice are for the millions of American families living on the streets of this great nation. Why does this rich nation have children going to bed hungry? 
People have asked why I sign off with Peace rather than a secular or non-secular goodbye. Simply put, I pray for peace; not for the grandiose version of world peace but for inner peace. I have struggled for years, as many others have, with my own problems and wish only Peace to others. I'm not here to change anyone's views or opinions; I'll simply wish each and every person PEACE wherever and however they can find it.
I miss you all!! Feel free to copy any ART (not our children's picture) on this profile and add it to your collection; they're all free cliparts. Thank you for the lovely comments concerning my updated profile page! 
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