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Anti-hunger group Feeding America found in May that hungry people in the United States were facing a $33.1 billion shortfall in money to meet their food needs, in part due to higher food prices.
The rise in food insecurity comes amid cuts to social safety net programs like SNAP, the child tax credit and free school lunch. More Americans don’t have enough food to eat, U.S. Census data show.
Food insecurity is defined at a household level, of not having adequate food for any household member due to finances. The step beyond this is very low food security, which is having six (for families without children) to eight (for families with children) or more food insecure conditions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Security Supplement Survey.
In 2015, Feeding America saved more than 2 billion pounds (~907 thousand metric tons) of food that would have been thrown away otherwise, but could instead be distributed to hungry families. [ 18 ] In 2018, the USDA announced that food insecurity had been steadily declining since the 2009 recession ended.
That combined with fuel prices, Fitzgerald noted, is what she fears is "pushing more people into food insecurity." According to the USDA data, 12 million children were experiencing food insecurity ...
The new facility can support 16 million pounds of food, including a new cold storage unit for dairy, eggs and meat. The largest nonprofit food relief organization in the United States, Feeding America, feeds 46.5 million citizens a year to address the nation's food insecurity issue. [23]
More than 47 million people in the U.S. face hunger, including 1 in 5 children, and in 2023 alone, 53 million people relied on charitable food assistance to stay fed, according to Feeding America.
The pandemic left millions of people in the U.S. at-risk when it comes to nutrition and overall health status. The pandemic complicated food insecurity among children, older adults, and undocumented immigrants. Feeding America stated that the estimated number of food-insecure kids could jump from 11 million to an estimated 18 million.