The share of Americans reporting trouble affording food is rising this year amid persistently high grocery costs, according to a recent report from Purdue University. Roughly 14% of U.S. households ...

When the government shutdown left 42 million people without food assistance last week, nonprofits stepped in to help, as they always do. Across the country, community foundations, congregations, and ...

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 ...

Food insecurity among Hoosiers is getting worse, not better. This film offers explanations of the "benefits cliff" and ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Restrained, Employed) status, plus the nutrition ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE -- The number of food-insecure Baltimore-area residents declined by 7.5 percentage points between 2023 and 2024, according to a survey by Johns Hopkins. The Baltimore Area Survey (BAS) asked ...

Food insecurity is not only linked with, but directly causes symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to research published in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health. Melissa Bateson of ...

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 ...

NOW. NEARLY 400,000 IOWANS. THAT IS A BIG NUMBER. DON’T KNOW WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM. A NEW FEEDING AMERICA STUDY SHOWS ALL 99 COUNTIES IN OUR STATE ARE DEALING WITH AN INCREASE IN FOOD ...

Food insecurity was linked to higher risks for dementia, cognitive impairment with dementia, and cognitive impairment with no dementia (CIND), especially in adults younger than 65 years, a new US ...

Last week President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department canceled the government’s annual Household Food Security survey — arguing the “nonstatutory report has become overpoliticized,” and amounts to ...

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 ...