U.S States keep Families Hungry

The article on how "States Struggle to Administer Food Stamps", talks about the Agriculture Department and how they are concerned about how states are handing out food stamps. In the article Henry Jackson the columnist tells us about a letter that was send out on the annual report on food stamp eligibility. Kevin Concannon, the department's undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services says states have run the program in a way that is, "“problematic and resulted in a more complex and difficult enrollment process,” also he says, "states have not served our clients or our taxpayers well.”

The article also show how states only approved certain amount of people. In California and Wyoming they had fewer then 50% of those eligible enrolled to receive food stamps. Also said the most populated states struggled the most. New York, where 61 percent of eligible citizens participated; Florida, where 57 percent participated; and Texas, where 55 percent were enrolled.

The most successful state was Missouri where almost 100% of those eligible got government aid in food stamps.

Henry Jackson talks about food stamps around the country and its problem. The source he is getting his information from is an annual report from the department's undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Service him self who is Kevin Concannon. I think we need to approve as many people eligible to get food stamps. In the report is says we failed our country by leaving out many people who are starving everyday. This would be easier if we can have better application processes like using online applications, call centers electronic case filing systems. Jackson also uses these ideas which i agree upon. I mean we live in a world of technology so i think the way the government officals need to improve is by using these methods to make it faster and easier. Last week, the department's annual report on food insecurity showed that in 2008 a higher percentage of Americans than ever went hungry or struggled to put food on the table. This statement by the report it self shows the governemnt needs to do their job and think smarter about how to approch the situation and improve the way they can help needy families that really cant afford to put food on the table in the economy today.