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More Americans struggling to buy food, especially those with kids
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 03, 2018 02:45pm |
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| Author | Kate Gibson |
| News Date | Friday, August 3, 2018 07:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The number of U.S. families without the financial means to buy enough food rose last year, and those with children were hardest hit.
After several years of declines, the so-called national food hardship rate is climbing, according to findings from the Food Research & Action Center, a nonprofit group that works to eliminate hunger. The survey, based on a national Gallup poll of 338,000 households, found that nearly 16 percent of families lacked the funds to buy food at least once in 2017, up slightly from the previous year. The risk of hunger was 1.3 times higher in homes with kids.
By region, people living in the Southwest and Southeast struggled the most to put food on the table in 2017, with 19 percent and 17 percent households, respectively, occasionally lacking funds to buy groceries. Of the 10 states with the most hunger, four were in the Southeast and four in the Southwest. |
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