Food Security in the United States, 2008
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More American households had difficulty putting enough food on the table in 2008
By Mark Nord, Margaret Andrews, and Steven Carlson
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-83) 66 pp, November 2009, Economic Research Services, USDA
In 2008, 85 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year, but 14.6 percent of households were food insecure at least some time during that year, up from 11.1 percent in 2007.
This is the highest recorded prevalence rate of food insecurity since 1995 when the first national food security survey was conducted.
The remaining households (14.6 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year, including 5.7 percent with very low food security—meaning that the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food.
The typical food-secure household spent 31 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Fifty-five percent of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs during the month prior to the 2008 survey.
Full report: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR83/ERR83fm.pdf
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