Part 2 — What is it and why you should do something, starting now
· Even today, a significant part of the world's population without adequate food. And so if we do not even talk about what an adequate diet.
• The United States has the worst food inflation in 17 years of wrestling. To make matters worse, analysts expect new data show that the situation will deteriorate. Set the compression force for poor families andto explain bakeries, delicatessens and bagel shops with price increases to customers.
U.S. Food · Prices rose by 4 percent in 2007. This is compared to an average annual increase of 2.5 percent for the last 15 years after the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Simultaneously, the agency expects that 2008 will be much worse with an increase of 4.5 percent.
· Rates higher for food and energy are again playing a leading role in pushing the consumer price index higher governmentMarch. • Analysts are proclaiming that the index of consumer prices rose by 4 percent annually during the first three months of 2008, that by increasing the overall participation of 2.8 percent.
• For the U.S. poor, the rising cost of food is a "one-or equation: give something, if you want to pay for food.
American · family still spend a smaller proportion of their money on food than any other country – 7.2 percent in 2006, according to the USDA. ByIn contrast, the number by 22 percent in Poland and more than 40 percent in Egypt and Vietnam.
• In Bangladesh, economists estimate that 30 million of the 150 million people could be forced into hunger.
• Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Haiti was voted in following food riots there.
· However, the higher U.S. prices seem surprising after years of low
Inflation. Eggs cost 25 percent more in February when, after a year ago,the USDA. Prices for milk and other dairy products jumped 13 percent, while the cost of chickens and other poultry nearly 7 percent.
· Fast economic growth in China and India, demand for meat has grown there. Meanwhile, U.S. exports of products such as corn, record increases because of the weak dollar, make these products cheaper
Following a performance of less corn for the U.S. domestic market is therefore the price increase here. More. Ethanol production has alsodiverted corn from tables and fuel tanks.
Elsewhere ·. soybean prices have surged upwards, as farmers have passed more of their acreage to corn. Meanwhile, drought in Australia affected the price of bread has since led to tighter supplies of grain worldwide.
· Twin Cafe Catering in Manhattan, a fresh notice to Delhi, he said: "Due to the huge increase in gas, electricity, water and other utilities, we hadTo raise prices a bit '. "
· Wonder Bagels, in Jersey City, NJ, is a letter from its wheat supplier, A. Oliveri & Sons, said the current situation is unprecedented.
• The Cheesecake Factory raised prices by 1.5 percent in late February, while Applebee's by 3 percent.
• For the poorest families with the United States can mean higher costs to starve.
· A family of four may, within a maximum of $ 542 per month in food stamps.So we have the impact of energy prices for households and the economy. Economists say that rising energy prices, the economy has slowed, and the debate securities as consumers are facing with rising prices.
Energy in 20 years an oil costs upwards of $ 300 per barrel second gas will cost upwards of $ 12.00 per gallon third triple the cost of heating your home
energy-price crisis of 1970 concerns about the impact on LEDlow and middle income. Energy is a basic need of everyday life in these families find it difficult to reduce, if prices increase. Although richer households consume more than households with average household income during middleincome consume more low-income households, consumption does not increase faster than income. When income increases, energy costs take a much smaller part of household income.
However, when prices are high and sustainable, the absolute sizethe increase is a concern. The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have both together, energy prices did not efforts to stimulate the economy through tax cuts combined. The bottom line is, low and middle income countries are already feeling the pinch from rising energy costs, while the problem is not likely to fall anytime soon.
Finally, we must all bare the light of the increasing cost of health care in the United States and also inmany other countries around the world: • In 2007 it was expected of the total national health expenditure at 6.9 percent, rising twice the rate of inflation.
• The total expenditure was 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars in 2007, or $ 7,600 per person. Total health spending accounted for 16 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
• The U.S. health care spending should grow at a similar level for the next decade. Health care, which constitutes 16 percent of GDP in 2005,should rise to 4.2 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016 or 20 percent of GDP.
• In 2007, employer health insurance premiums increased by 6.1 percent, or twice the inflation rate. The annual premium for an employer health plan for a family of four, on average, about $ 12,100, while the 4400 annual premium for single coverage averaged over $.
• The American system is full of inefficiencies such as excessive administrative expenses, inflated prices, poorManagement, inadequate care, and increase of waste and fraud and all are significant variations in the cost of medical care and health insurance for employers, workers and their families.
• In 2007, health spending in the United States has reached 2.3 trillion dollars, a figure expected to reach about 3 trillion U.S. dollars in 2011.
· Medicine statutory spending expected to reach up to 4.2 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016 and is currently 4.3 times the amount spent on nationalDefense.
· Although nearly 47 million uninsured Americans, the U.S. spends more on health care than other industrialized nations. This, if those countries provide health insurance to all its citizens.
· Medicine Legal expenses represented 10.9 percent of GDP in Switzerland, Germany 10.7 percent, 9.7 percent in Canada and France, 9.5 percent, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and development.
• Premiums forhealth insurance of employer-based rose by 6.1 percent in 2007.
· The Small employers saw their premiums increase by an average of 5.5 percent.
· Companies with fewer than 24 employees, an increase of 6.8 percent.
• The annual premium, a health insurance fund, the employer, the fees for a health plan for a family of four averaged $ 12,100 in 2007.
· Workers contributed nearly $ 3,300 in 2007 to 10 percent more than 2006 did.
• L 'annual premium for family coverage significantly eclipsed the gross earnings for a full-time minimum wage worker ($ 10,712).
· Workers are now paying more premiums of $ 1,400 per year for family coverage than they did in 2000.
• Since 2000, the employment-based health insurance premiums increased 100 percent, compared to cumulative inflation of 24 percent and wage increases totaling 21 percent over the same period.
· Health insurance costsfastest growing expense for employers. Unless something changes dramatically, health insurance costs will exceed revenues by 2008 a.
• After the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, premiums for employer paid health insurance in the country has increased four times faster than the average earnings of workers' from 2000.
• The average worker is to contribute to health insurance company, provided increased moreto 143 percent since 2000.
· Costs average out-of-pocket for deductibles, co-payments for drugs and increased co-insurance for doctor and hospital visits to 115 percent over the same period.
• The percentage of Americans under age 65 whose family-level out ofpocket spending on health, including health insurance, the $ 2,000 over one year, increased from 37.3 percent in 1996-43, 1 percent in 2003. This represents an increase of 16 percent.
·Economists have found that rising health care costs related to drop health insurance.
Quarter largely (23 percent) of insured reported significantly change their lifestyle to pay medical bills.
• In a survey of Wall Street Journal-NBC was nearly 50 percent of the American public that the costs for health care was their primary economic concern.
• In a / USA Today ABC News poll said 80 percent of Americanswere dissatisfied (60 percent were very dissatisfied) with high national health expenditure. Boomers-Bank
° increases health care costs is a concern for personal bag top Democratic voters (45%) and Republicans (35%), well ahead of higher taxes or retirement security.
· One in four Americans say their family has a problem paying for medical care during the last year, up 7 percentage points over the last nine years.
In large part I · say 30 percent,someone facing delays in her family medical care in the past year, while the away most also say that this was serious, despite the fact that the disease was at least something.
· A recent study by researchers at Harvard University found that medical debt, the average out-of-pocket for those who are in bankruptcy was $ 12,000. The study found that 68 percent of those who had filed for bankruptcy and insurance funds, that 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings were partlythe result of medical expenses.
· Every 30 seconds in the United States someone files bankruptcy after a serious health problem.
Quality medical care costs increased by 15% per year
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