Hunger rose in 2011 as economy struggled, USDA finds, By Tony Pugh, September 5, 2012, Kansas City Star: “Record numbers of U.S. households struggled at times to feed their families last year, according to a report Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the state of hunger in America. A lack of resources forced others to cut back on meals and disrupt their usual eating patterns, it says. A record 17.9 million U.S. households – 700,000 more than in 2010 – didn’t have enough food at all times last year to sustain active, healthy lives for all family members, according to the USDA. This ‘food insecurity’ affected a record 14.9 percent of U.S. households and more than 50 million people, about one in six U.S. residents…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty