http://mikeyxw.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] mikeyxw.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2013-11-25 04:10 am (UTC)

No, this shows that 14% of people making less than 15K a year do not have a refrigerator that is between 15 and 22 cubic feet. This graph also shows that 16% of people making $75,000 or more per year don't have a refrigerator between 15 and 22 cubic feet, do you take this to mean that the poor are more likely to have a refrigerator than the rich?

What I'm getting at is that the idea that people don't have the appliances to cook food seems wrong. Almost everyone is using power for a refrigerator, which makes me think they have a working refrigerator. Even if second and third homes are included, this would probably skew things a small amount and 0.1% is vanishingly small.

I'm not bringing this up just to be argumentative. This is really a problem that needs to be solved and having a good idea of the real problem is important. Providing reduced cost refrigerators and stoves doesn't seem like an effective way to get people to eat healthier, having home ec classes, or maybe just cooking classes, might be.

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