Indicators of Food Insecurity Among Feeding America Client Households with Children

Feb 01, 2010
  • Description

Chapter 6.4 presents responses to questions where clients were asked about their children's skipping of meals, being hungry, and not eating enough. Key Findings:

  • Among all clients with children, 6.3% stated that during the previous 12 months, their children were often not eating enough because they just could not afford enough food.
  • Another 21.8% of the clients experienced such a situation sometimes during the previous 12 months.
  • In over 0.8 million FA households, children had to skip meals because of lack of resources to buy food.
(Excerpted from Hunger in America 2010.)