Food and water, are the two essentials for life itself. One might think
that while food and water insecurity might be a problem in some third
world country, like Afghanistan or Somalia, it could hardly be much of
an issue in a country as rich as the United States. And yet, irrefutably, it
is. And there is a linkage between food and water insecurity and scarcity
and homelessness that needs to be much better understood. The basic
processes I am going to describe are taking place all over the world; but
here I am going to focus on the United States.
According to a Gallup Organization 2019 study: “55% of Americans
worry a great deal about hunger and homelessness.”1 That’s 183,700,
000 Americans, and matters have only gotten worse, as the numbers
have gone up during the Covid Pandemic. Recognizing and under-
standing the linkage between water and food insecurity and homeless-
ness, I suggest, have become critically important to social wellbeing of
American society.
The president’s Council of Economic Advisers reported in 2019: “Due
to decades of misguided and faulty policies, homelessness is a serious
problem. Over half a million people […]

Read the Full Article