Millions more Americans were food insecure in 2022 than 2021 - USDA | Reuters
By: Leah Douglas (Reuters)
Millions more Americans had difficulty securing enough food in 2022 compared to the year prior, including 1 million more households with children, a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed on Monday.
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By Leah DouglasOctober 25, 20232:46 PM UTCUpdated agoEllie Amador picks up a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farmers to Families food box as food is distributed at the nonprofit New Life Centers' food pantry in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Daniel Acker/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Millions more Americans had difficulty securing enough food in 2022 compared to the year prior, including 1 million more households with children, a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed on Monday.
The increase interrupted a years-long trend of declining hunger in the United States. Previous reports from food banks and the U.S. Census Bureau have indicated that hunger is increasing as low-income Americans struggle to recover from the pandemic and from the end of expanded food assistance.
The USDA report, which did not provide an explanation for the rise, found that 12.8% of households - equivalent to 17 million households - struggled to get enough food in 2022, up from 10.2%, or 13.5 million households, in 2021.
Nearly 7 million households faced very low food security, meaning members' normal eating patterns were disrupted or food intake dropped because of limited resources, USDA said.
More than 13 million children, or 18.5% of the country's child population, lived in food insecure households in 2022.
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Biden's America...........meanwhile, let's send a shitload of money overseas
Let's be honest, we weren't going to spend that money on food for the poor anyway.
Food stamp increase? With this congress? Not in a thousand years.
Yep, Bidenomics at work.