ACROSS AMERICA

Across America, 1 in 6 people do not have enough access to food and struggle with the problem of hunger daily.  According to statistics taken in 2012, In this means that 49.0 million Americans lived in food insecure households, affecting approximately 33.1 million adults and 15.9 million children.  To deal with this issue of hunger, 5.1 percent of all U.S. households (6.2 million households) have accessed emergency food from a food pantry or soup kitchen one or more times.  Some, approximately  59.4 percent of food-insecure households participated in at least one of the three major Federal food assistance programs –Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly Food Stamp Program), The National School Lunch Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

 

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