The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a significant rise in hunger in the United States, especially among caretakers of children, people who are unemployed or insecurely employed, undocumented immigrants and other racialized marginalized groups. The gaping holes in the public response to growing ...
hunger in America will worsen and will disproportionately impact low-income families more because of inequities in the system, Nancy Roman, president and CEO of the Partnership for a Healthier America, was quoted as saying.■
America is living in a post-COVID-19 world but hunger is still a troubling, thorny and challenging issue that organizations like Feeding America, Meals on Wheels, WhyHunger, Union Station Homeless Service and CAFB work every day to mitigate and put an end to. ...
The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2006, conducted for America's Second Harvest (A2H), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 52,000 clients served by the A2H ...
20.4 percent last year, but remained stable in Asia -- home to more than half of those facing hunger worldwide -- at 8.1 percent. While the overall figure in South America dropped from 6.6 percent to 6.2 percent, it grew in the Caribbean to 17.2 percent as against 16.6 percent in 2022...
Hunger still stalks Brazil, Latin America's biggest economy, even if efforts have picked up to halt it. The issue may seem counterintuitive for an agricultural powerhouse. But the lucrative side of Brazil's farming sector is soy and sugar exports, and not diet staples such as beans and rice...
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Food insecurity is very much a part of the landscape in Ohio, with Feeding America ranking Ohio 13th in percentage of children with food insecurity. The Children’s Defense Fund Ohio found that 1 in 6 children in Ohio “lives in a household that faces hunger,” yet 1 in 3 children in ...
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