Paying for Food
True or false, people living in poverty tend to eat much more unhealthy food than those not.
What is true?
SNAP (formerly food stamps) gives you this welfare benefit.
What is money for Food?
This is the term given to an area that is far away from any supermarket.
What is a food desert?
Catholic social teaching supports helping people below this financial line.
What is the poverty line?
This percent (to the nearest 10%) of people’s income living under the poverty line goes to food.
For reference, housing takes up 41.2% of their income
What is 32%?
This is where less fortunate children primarily get their breakfast and lunches during the week.
What are school free meals programs?
This town is the closest food desert to SJP.
What is Lynn?
This Catholic social teaching principle is applicable in the following scenario: Government assistance programs aid impoverished people.
What is role of government?
This is (to the nearest 10 dollars) the food budget for a family of three under the poverty line per week.
For reference, this family has a salary of 20k per year
What is $98?
Does a family of three receive more or less than $700 per month form SNAP (food stamps)?
What is receiving over $700 per month?
This amount of people in Massachusetts Live in a low-income food desert (rounded to the nearest half a million)
What are 2.5 million people?
This Catholic social teaching principle applies to this scenario: Kids getting free meals in school.
12% of the Massachusetts population is Latino, the majority immigrants. 14.4% live under the poverty line, 3% more than the national average. A common South/Central American dish is rice and beans. Guess to the 40 cents how much rice and beans cost.
What is $2.59?
This number is how many pounds (to the 20 million) of food does the Greater Boston food bank distribute.
For reference, 17.9% of people (115,600 people) in Boston live at or below the poverty.
A meal is roughly 1.2 pounds.
What is 104 million pounds of food?
This unhealthy factor is prevalent in communities without many grocery stores.
What is obesity?
DAILY DOUBLE
This Catholic social teaching principle applies when food charities make it a mission to be responsible for the good of all by helping everyone have access to food.
What is Solidarity?
DAILY DOUBLE
These three items cost a total of how much to the nearest fifty cents.
What is $6.50?
SNAP (formerly food stamps) stand for these words.
Hint: the “S” stands for Supplemental
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
In Lawrence, a known food desert, this percent of adults is overweight.
What is 66%?
This cycle tells us to not forget about the poor, as they are closet to God.
What is The Cycle of Baal?