the issue is that rent is way up this year, combined with skyrocketing food and gas prices. it's going to be a while before we have all the data but I think the purchasing power of the median income in the US fell off a cliff this year - whether that puts the US working poor at parity with or worse off than the global south, I don't think we know yet. the middle classes are running up an astronomical amount of debt, much as they did just prior to the 2008 global financial crisis, while their savings are obliterated.
someone mentioned above that this 45-54% number is of the 48% who are facing food insecurity, which puts the actual rate of families skipping meals at 21%. I also don't think the data from the rest of the world is in yet on just how bad the past month has been - I expect that over the next several months, the whole world is going to be seeing bread riots.
I get all that but whatever the reasons for the "falling of a cliff" may be they apply very much so to the big majority of countries around the globe .So all things equal, American households do have the purchasing power and QoL food wise headstart to absorb the global food security crisis "better" compared to the global south. So If that significant of a % of families are going hungry in the US then for the same reasons at least that % of families would be absolutely starving in most of the world. We arent there yet and so beyond survey issues i can only think that "skipping a meal" for the average american doesnt mean the same thing as it does for most of the world and its impact isnt comperable
oh for sure. if anything, this means that global food supplies are going to get diverted towards the US, because the US can pay more for food. there's going to be widespread famines this year.
the issue is that rent is way up this year, combined with skyrocketing food and gas prices. it's going to be a while before we have all the data but I think the purchasing power of the median income in the US fell off a cliff this year - whether that puts the US working poor at parity with or worse off than the global south, I don't think we know yet. the middle classes are running up an astronomical amount of debt, much as they did just prior to the 2008 global financial crisis, while their savings are obliterated.
someone mentioned above that this 45-54% number is of the 48% who are facing food insecurity, which puts the actual rate of families skipping meals at 21%. I also don't think the data from the rest of the world is in yet on just how bad the past month has been - I expect that over the next several months, the whole world is going to be seeing bread riots.
I get all that but whatever the reasons for the "falling of a cliff" may be they apply very much so to the big majority of countries around the globe .So all things equal, American households do have the purchasing power and QoL food wise headstart to absorb the global food security crisis "better" compared to the global south. So If that significant of a % of families are going hungry in the US then for the same reasons at least that % of families would be absolutely starving in most of the world. We arent there yet and so beyond survey issues i can only think that "skipping a meal" for the average american doesnt mean the same thing as it does for most of the world and its impact isnt comperable
oh for sure. if anything, this means that global food supplies are going to get diverted towards the US, because the US can pay more for food. there's going to be widespread famines this year.