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Hunter's Hidden Impact
America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization, provides these statistics on the effects of hunger. In the United States:
  • One in six children is hungry or at risk of hunger every year.
  • 12.6 million of American children reside in food-insecure households, meaning they were hungry or at risk of hunger.
  • According to the Hunger in America study, more than 25 million Americans seek food assistance each year:
    • More than 40 percent of the 52,000 people surveyed reported having to choose between paying for utilities or heating fuel and food;
    • 35 percent had to choose between paying for rent or a mortgage and food;
    • 32 percent reported having to choose between paying for medical bills and food.
According to the Nebraska Food Bank, in Nebraska:
  • In Douglas County, 53,000 people live below the poverty line—and 16,800 are children.
  • Hunger and poor nutrition have been shown to have an adverse effect on a child's cognitive development.
  • In at least 60 percent of the families seeking emergency food assistance in The Food Bank service area, one adult was working full-time.
  • The Food Bank distributes between 5 to 7 million pounds of food each year.
  • The Food Bank serves more than 360 food pantries and meal providers in Douglas County and western Iowa.
  • The number of "meals" distributed by The Food Bank in 2006 equaled 7,752,810.
  • More than 300,000 people in the Heartland benefit from The Food Bank.
  • More than 300,000 meals have been served to children at The Food Bank's eight Kids Cafes.
  • $100 provides 80 meals at one of The Food Bank's Kids Cafes.
  • $1,200 provides 880 meals to children at one of The Food Bank's Kids Cafes.
  • More than 500 children benefit from The Food Bank for Kids BackPack Program.
  • $120 provides a child a BackPack of food each weekend during the school year.
Source: Child Food Insecurity in the United States: The number of children who live in food-insecure households in Nebraska: 71,000; in Iowa: 120,000

To access the study, please go to: www.secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/methodology.pdf.

An interactive map showing child food insecurity state by state is at: www.secondharvest.org/childhunger.


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