Food Insecurity

26.3 % of all households with children served by America's Second Harvest, reports from the interviews preformed state that the children are not getting enough food to eat because they just couldn't afford it. These children receive less than 70 % of the recommended dietary requirements.

“Sometimes we skip meat and proteins. Or I go to the food bank. Last month we had run out of milk, and by chance we went by the pantry and they gave us milk. That really saved us. It really did.”

It has been estimated 2000 that 33.2 million people were suffering from this food insecurity in year 2001that number has risen to 33.6 million. This number only concerns the people that do not have enough food to make it from paycheck to paycheck. The numbers at that time, of the actual people that were considered to be suffering from hunger in the year 2000 was 8.5 million and that number rose to 9 million in year 2001. With an average rise in these figures of 500,000 per year that would lead us to believe that the averages rose to approximately 10.5 million people in America suffer from hunger.

“Before I used to say, ‘I’M HUNGRY!’ But now I am so used to it, I don’t even moan or groan or anything anymore.”