{"id":621,"date":"2006-12-08T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2006-12-08T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T04:01:20","slug":"900000-torontonians-used-food-banks-last-year-are-you-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"900,000 Torontonians Used Food Banks Last Year?  Are You Serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I support food drives and food banks.  I always have and always will.  But tonight I heard something that really scared me.<\/p>\n<p>While watching TV, I saw a commercial for the Toronto food drive on Global TV and Leslie Roberts appeared in a community appeal announcement and he said that over 900,000 people used foodbanks in the GTA last year.<\/p>\n<p>Nine Hundred Thousand people.  That&#8217;s a 9 with five zero&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The total population of the GTA is approximately 5.7 Million people.  If we reduce this number by the number of people that are given three squares a day such as hospital patients, group and retirement home patients and prisoners, we can probably knock this number down to 5.4 Million or so.<\/p>\n<p>So out of these 5.4 million, 900,000 or about 16.6% of Torontonians had refrigerators and cupboards so bare that that they needed to go get a food donation to stay alive.  Thats 1 in 6 people.  Thats 1 in 6 families.<\/p>\n<p>Is it me or is this a sign that something is wrong with Toronto.  Is the city that broke(n)?<\/p>\n<p>I am finding it hard to believe this number is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Comments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I support food drives and food banks. I always have and always will. But tonight I heard something that really scared me. While watching TV, I saw a commercial for the Toronto food drive on Global TV and Leslie Roberts appeared in a community appeal announcement and he said that over 900,000 people used foodbanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,52,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-politics-federal","category-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}