1 in 10 people need help buying food in US says Reuters -- was it this bad in the 70s & 80s recessions?

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I trust this board has enough collective experience to help me wrap my feeble mind around this situation. As a person in the twenties I clearly remember the tech bust but I've got no personal understanding of what went down in the 70s and 80s. So 1 and 10 people need help getting food to survive, how does that compare to other recessions?

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I was in Madison Wisconsin for the 80-82 recession. In Madison 1982 there were no jobs available. None. You could not get a job flipping burgers, mowing lawns, or shoveling snow. Families had to resort to food banks every day. Layoffs were a new phenomena. People who got laid off were sure they must have done something wrong. It was devastating for men in their 40's or 50's to be laid off. They were never prepared for it and from what I see, most never recovered and could never find a job paying more than 50% of what their factory jobs paid. In the rust belt the early 80's recession was brutal. Obviously, Detroit never really recovered from the 80's.
 
Having graduated H.S. in 1983 up in the Central Valley, I remember a food bank in town for the Elderly and immigrants and my H.S. class ring cost $850.00 (Thank you Mom and Dad, gold was high then also). The town I lived in was mostly migrant workers and a lot of the students did get free or subsidized lunch. As for food stamps, yeah, quite a few back then, I remember being embarrassed, even as a kid, when I would go to the store with some cousin's and they would use them. Luckily for me, both Mom and Dad had management jobs at Lindsay Olive's back in the day.

It is funny, when I turned 18 in 83 my only option was to join the Air Force to find a job, now all these years later I am looking at finding work as civilian with the Armed Force's. I am tired of being unemployed here in paradise.?! So, if anyone has any leads with some of the contractor's doing work overseas I am interested.

No Vas, you may know what I am talking about, I grew up in Lindsay.
 
working poor said:
No Vas, you may know what I am talking about, I grew up in Lindsay.
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My wife was living in Lindsay when we met. I'm from da West Side (Kings County), but things haven't changed. It take that back, it's way worse there now than then. Food assistance in Lindsay continues to be a way of life, for better or worse.

Recently I joined Facebook and found almost all of my old friends. All of them except for one or two left the area because..........there is no work. I stuck it out for 15 years and finally bailed.
 
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