Updated Food Insecurity Numbers Released

The number of food insecure households in the United States remained unchanged between 2012 and 2013, according to a report just issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. According to the report, Household Food Security in the United States in 2013, 14.3 percent of households experienced food insecurity during 2013 (food insecurity simply means not being sure where the next meal is coming from). Twenty-one percent of children lived in food insecure homes, and 9 percent of seniors suffered from food insecurity.  All those numbers are essentially unchanged from the previous year. Other parts of the economy are doing well—the stock market jumped nearly 30 percent in 2013—but clearly economic change is not happening at the lower end of the scale.

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