1 In 5 U.S. Households With Kids Don’t Have Enough To Eat: Report

Hunger among families in the United States has dropped since the recession, but the number of struggling households remains troublingly high, a new report concludes. One in five households with children didn’t have sufficient funds to purchase enough food last year, according to a report released this month by the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), a group that fights hunger through public policy and public-private partnerships.  These figures were released on the heels of a separate report that found food insecure adolescents in the U.S. taking desperate, risky measures just to get something to eat.  Last year, 19.2 percent of households with children said they struggled at some point during the year to afford food, per the FRAC report. That marks a slight decline from 2014, when 20.8 percent of families said they didn’t have enough money to pay for food. Washington, D.C., and Mississippi had the highest hunger rates among families with children. FRAC also reported that the number of households that have trouble affording food ― both those with children and without ― has fallen slightly, from 17.8 percent in 2008 to 16 percent last year. While government programs help families in need, they’re not effective enough, the report concluded. The shortcomings of these programs were demonstrated in a report released this month by Feeding America, a nonprofit food bank network, and the Urban Institute research group.&n...
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