Links

Here you will find links for your viewing pleasure. This will be websites related to our cause.

• The Hunger Project
• The Hunger Project is an organization that focuses on sustainability in feeding the impoverished. Visit our page on the Hunger Project for more information or follow the link above to view their website.
• Feeding America
• Feeding America works to provide towns with food banks and create a national network of food banks for the American poor.
• Ozarks Food Harvest
• Ozarks Food Harvest is a localized organization in Springfield, MO that provides discounted food to impoverished families. They serve roughly 30,000 people every week in the Ozarks.
• The Impact of Poverty on Education
• This is a paper on what happens to education in the case of poverty-stricken homes and children.
• Springfield Facts
• This government website shows a break down of Springfield's population, including the number of people, those who own houses and those living below the poverty line.
• Freedom Writer's Diary!
• The Freedom Writers were a group of students that were assigned a journal for a class assignment. The Result of what their teacher learns about her student and what she does to help them is astonishing. The Above link is to the google book copy which I am assuming is only certain portions of the actual book. If you haven't already watched or read this story, I highly suggest it. 
• The Petition
• Our petition is addressing the idea of the subsidies and grants and putting it in the hands of the government and lobbyists in the federal government. 
• Choose My Plate
• This is a website that gives various tools about how to eat healthy. 
• Modern HealthCare
• This article discusses the idea of adding rebates to health insurance policies (as experimented with in South Africa) for the purchase of healthy foods. 
• University of Washington
• The scientists a did a study of price per calorie to weigh the costs of healthy and unhealthy eating. 
• Facebook
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