Poverty
The Oxford Dictionary defines the following term as the state of being extremely poor.
What is Poverty?
This is who can be affected by food insecurity/hunger in the United States.
Who is Anyone?
Camden is located in this state.
What is New Jersey?
The three main nutritional components needed daily are _______, __________, __________.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?
This program is America's largest federal nutrition assistance program.
What is SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
This is the first Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations.
What is No Poverty?
This is a health risk associated with food insecurity.
What is obesity, heart conditions, some types of diabetes, depression, hypertension, high cholesterol, and poor sleep outcome?
This is one (multiple answers accepted) of many contributing factors to Camden's poverty.
What are the the lack of jobs, lack of affordable housing and a low number of high school graduates due to multiple causes? (other answers may be accepted here).
This is how a healthy diet can help our health (multiple responses are accepted).
What is a healthy diet promotes healthy pregnancy outcomes in expectant mothers, supports normal growth, development, and aging, helps to maintain healthy body weight, and reduces the risk of chronic disease leading to overall health and well-being?
This is an example of an organization that helps poor and hungry people in need.
The Center for Food Action, Green Shots Foundation. Muslim Hands, BRAC, UNICEF, Oxfam International, Global Citizen, Concern Worldwide, World Relief, and Care International (other answers may be accepted).
To more than a billion people around the world, this is the daily food budget.
What is $1.25 a day?
A painful physical feeling due to insufficient consumption of food and the state of not having reliable access to sufficient food are ____ and _______.
What are hunger and food insecurity?
This fraction of Camden residents live below the poverty line.
What is 1/3 of Camden residents?
This is the estimated number of children in America struggling with food insecurity.
This is when a family (typically two generations or more) has a long history of impoverishment.
What is generational poverty?
According to the international poverty line, this implies living on less than $1.90 a day.
What is Extreme Poverty?
Approximately how many people face food insecurity in NJ?
What is about 650,000 people in New Jersey face hunger every day. 175,000 of them are children.
Camden is this type of community (options: urban, suburban, or rural).
What is urban?
On average a balanced, healthy diet could cost a family of four ____ (in dollar amount) per month.
What is $1000-$1200 per month?
This is the largest organization working towards helping those living in poverty in NJ.
What is the Community Food Bank of New Jersey (CFBNJ)?
This US state struggles the most with poverty in the country.
What is Mississippi? (19.4% living in poverty)
This is the number of people that are food insecure in the US.
What are about 38 million people?
Approximately this fraction of Camden residents are unemployed.
What is 1/3?
This is the recommended amount of food a child should be eating in a day.
3 full meals a day – 1,600-2,200 calories a day
When climate change or regional weather issues create natural disasters that put people who were originally financially stable below the poverty line.
What is climate-induced poverty?