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​Background and Needs

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BACKGROUND & NEED

You Can Not Tell A Child You Gave Them Food Yesterday!

  • ​62% of Cincinnati children qualify for food assistance (3rd worst nationally).
  • Food insecure children are76% more likely to have cognitive, language and behavior problems.
  • Demographic is 90% black, 7% Hispanic and 3% white.
  • Impacted neighborhoods are characterized by:
  1. No full-service grocery stores within a mile.
  2. No community gardens or farmer markets.
  3. Minimal car ownership.
  4. High poverty rates.
  5. Densely populated.
  6. High numbers of fast-food restaurants and convenience stores.

Childhood Poverty Costs $1.3 Trillion A Year!

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  • “Impoverished children grow up having fewer skills and are thus less able to contribute to the productivity of the economy”.
  • “They are also more likely to experience frequent health care problems and to engage in crime”.
  • “These costs are borne directly by the children, but ultimately by the wider society as well”.
  • It is estimated that for every dollar spent on reducing childhood poverty, the country will save at least $7 with respect to the economic costs of poverty”.
    ​https://source.wustl.edu/2018/04/childhood-poverty-cost-u-s-1-03- trillion-in-year-study-finds/
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