Lies, damned lies and poverty statistics

Watching our elite 'media' one would conclude that starvation and homelessness (at least during Republican administrations) is rampant in the land.  Leading poverty wonk Robert Rector corrects the record here.  Money graf:


How can that be? In 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked parents living in poverty this question: “In the last 12 months, were [your] children ever hungry but you just couldn’t afford more food?” Some 96 percent of poor parents responded “no”: Their children never had been hungry because of a lack of food resources at any time in the previous year. Only 4 percent of poor parents responded “yes,” their children had been hungry at some point in the year.

Only 4 percent of poor parents even said their children had ever been hungry during the year.  That is as close to zero as you can get in a public survey.  The elite media are frauds and liars.  Once again.