free lunch

[Bullwinkle]

up to 70% in some schools

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20110...lunch.html

come on - what may be the biggest economy on earth has trouble feeding its children? I do not understand how this is allowed to happen

- hungry kids in a state driven by resorts. Maybe we can teach them to sell chewing gum on the streets like they do in mexico - end of rant

[punaticbychoice]

Do you think Hawaii DOE could have courses in street vending?
You know, making change, selling methods,,,,?
Puna is closer to the third world than some of the rest of Hawaii.
We could call it "relevant training for your future career in mass marketing" DOE could set up a pilot program on Beretania or Bishop Street- or better yet Waikiki- plenty tourists there to sell to.

[anthonyf]

Good thing we are going to have that telescope approved for Mauna Kea now, that will really help those kids!

Serously, High GDP of a country means lower quality of life for the majority people of that country.
http://www.gimmiethescoop.com/gdp-gross-...are-part-2

GDP measures economics, nothing else. Slavery can cause a country to have a very high GDP.

[punaticbychoice]

Oh, I forgot- DOE is training our children to work in our huge sugar, pineapple and cannery industries.
Sorry, me bad.
Maybe we can get some contributions for our sales training program from Goldman Sachs.

[punaticbychoice]

Yes anthonyf, you are right.
150 years ago today, the Southern Confederacy had a higher per capita income than the Northern states.
That was because of the "value" of their slave population.
Just an example from our own history.

[Bullwinkle]

here are the tables on gdp vs child poverty

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_ch...ld-poverty

note 1 & 2 on the poverty list


http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...per_capita (select ppp for national PER PERSON output ranking from the results)

I think one could infer that attitudes towards the acceptability of child poverty could be driven by culture & education levels not ppp

[silverpenny10]

What's the value of today's slave population (us, the working class)? More jobs to grind the wheel?

[Bullwinkle]

its all in the ppp data. Education of the next generation the way out of economic servitude imho


2010 Poverty Guidelines for
Hawaii
Persons in family Poverty guideline
1 $12,460
2 16,760
3 21,060
4 25,360
5 29,660
6 33,960
7 38,260
8 42,560
For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,300 for each additional person.

Its up to the individual to decide at what income level he or she decides to wear the harness..... the more skills the more options imho

[pslamont]

As we saw for our entire lives in Califorina... Welfare Entitlement was the backbone of massive poverty. It was just too easy to go on the government dole and skip learning/working. I had a twenty something comment to me the other day "It's awful. They took away our food stamps. How are we going to live?'. Of course he drives a nice little pick-up truck with a custom flat bed back, wife has a lexus, they have two cell phones with internet and just installed cable in their place. Methinks there is a bit of confusion regarding the difference between want and need.

edited for spelling

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[mdd7000]

For those still on dial-up, a quote from the article:

"Children in households at or below 130 percent of the federal poverty level qualify for free lunches. Reduced-cost lunches help families earning from 131 percent to 185 percent of the federal poverty level. In Hawaii that means a family of four bringing in $32,968 a year or less would be eligible for the free lunch program. A family of four earning no more than $46,916 would qualify for reduced-cost lunches."