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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Food Insecurity in the US

Hunger is a ‘silent crisis’ in the USA, By Marisol Bello, April 16, 2014, USA Today: “Tianna Gaines Turner can’t remember the last time she went to bed without worrying about how she was going to feed her three children. She can’t remember the last time she woke up and wasn’t worried about how she and her husband would make enough in their part-time jobs to buy groceries and pay utilities on their apartment in a working-class section of Philadelphia. And she can’t remember the last time she felt confident she and her husband wouldn’t have to skip meals so their children could eat…”