The last survey of U.S. food security that the Agriculture Department is scheduled to produce found that 13.7% of households ...

Welton is Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy: Anti-Poverty & Basic Needs at The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) As fall semester of college is in full swing, nearly a quarter of ...

Food scarcity—the unreliable access to adequate, nutritious food—affects approximately 44 million Americans, including 13 million children. While hunger’s physical consequences receive significant ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Start with a snapshot: Adults without reliable ...

The number of Long Islanders coping with food insecurity is growing, experts say. Hauppauge-based Long Island Cares puts the current number at over 313,000 people. And Feeding America reported last ...

I’ve volunteered for Arlington EATS, my local food pantry, for years. And I often wonder: What more can I do? I feel this way now more than ever, as grocery prices rise and food banks struggle to keep ...

SEVEN NEWS ACROSS NEW MEXICO. MORE THAN 350,000 PEOPLE ARE FACING FOOD CHALLENGES AS WE WORK TO FEED NEW MEXICO. OUR ALYSSA MUNOZ SHARES A RECENT STUDY SHOWING OUR STATE’S HUNGER RATES ARE HIGHER THAN ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - One in seven people in Missouri are food insecure which is more than 15 percent of the population. One in Five children in Missouri face hunger, and 44.8 percent of the ...

Struggling to afford food today could mean heart problems tomorrow. Young adults experiencing food insecurity have a 41% greater risk of developing heart disease in midlife, even after accounting for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Errol Schweizer has the essential take on the grocery industry. SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is at the ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they will not collect food insecurity data for 2025. The timing could not be worse. Just as cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

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