What is the size of the problem in the United States?
The best way to be food insecure is to be a young child; 16.9% of US children under age 6 live in a food insecure household, compared to 6.7% of adult-only households, according to data from the USDA. The America’s Second Harvest emergency food network provided hunger relief services to an estimated 25 million low-income people in 2005—including 2 million children under age 5—an 8% increase since 2001. Click here to go to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, where you can access national data and evaluation on food and nutrition assistance.
