Nearly 13 percent of New York households struggled with hunger on average in the years 2008-2010, according to new data released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its annual report on food insecurity.
The report covers the three years during the heart of the recession. The rate for the three-year period prior to the recession (2005-2007) was 9.9 percent. The current rate, an increase of 30 percent since 2007, highlights the deep impact the recession has had on a vast number of households.
Read our press release about the report.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Congress Should Expand Federal Nutrition Programs: New York Times Op-Ed
Hunger in the United States
New York Times Editorial, November 18, 2009
Congress should make a priority of expanding federal nutrition programs that are aimed at helping millions of struggling families feed their children. The need to bolster these programs was underscored again this week in a dismaying Department of Agriculture study showing that a record number of households had trouble getting sufficient food at one time or another last year.
These facts are troubling enough, but a separate federal study showed that even before the recession began, more than two-thirds of families with children who were defined as “food insecure” under federal guidelines contained one or more full-time worker. This suggests that millions of Americans were trapped in low-wage jobs before the downturn that made it more difficult for them to provide children with adequate nutrition.
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New York Times Editorial, November 18, 2009
Congress should make a priority of expanding federal nutrition programs that are aimed at helping millions of struggling families feed their children. The need to bolster these programs was underscored again this week in a dismaying Department of Agriculture study showing that a record number of households had trouble getting sufficient food at one time or another last year.
These facts are troubling enough, but a separate federal study showed that even before the recession began, more than two-thirds of families with children who were defined as “food insecure” under federal guidelines contained one or more full-time worker. This suggests that millions of Americans were trapped in low-wage jobs before the downturn that made it more difficult for them to provide children with adequate nutrition.
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