Most food banks are seeing more demand than last year going into the holiday season, according to the nonprofit Feeding America's survey of 157 food banks. The big picture: Food insecurity has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A box of food from the Houston Food Bank. Houston's food-insecure households are more likely to report poor health outcomes and go uninsured. That's according to a recent survey of more than 5,200 ...

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity became a pressing issue in Broome County, N.Y. In response, several members of the Binghamton University, State University of New York community ...

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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 ...

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 ...