{"id":19279,"date":"2020-12-26T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19279"},"modified":"2020-12-26T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T22:18:47","slug":"54-million-americans-including-18-million-kids-to-lack-access-to-sufficient-food-by-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/54-million-americans-including-18-million-kids-to-lack-access-to-sufficient-food-by-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"54 Million Americans \u2013 Including 18 Million Kids \u2013 To Lack Access to Sufficient Food by Year\u2019s End"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elias Marat<\/a> – December 23, 2020<\/p>\n

A new analysis has found that 54 million people in the United States, including 18 million children, will lack access to sufficient food by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The report from U.S.-based anti-hunger group Feeding America<\/em><\/a> underscores the extent to which chronic food scarcity and malnourishment has surged in poor communities amid a devastating increase of coronavirus infections which federal and state governments have failed to get under control.<\/p>\n

The group has distributed 4.2 billion meals across the country between March and October 2020. It is estimated that there has been a 60 percent average increase in food bank users as the pandemic has swept across the country, with roughly four out of 10 users being first-time seekers of food aid.<\/p>\n

The analysis comes one month after the U.S. Census Bureau reported that less than half of U.S. households with children feel \u201cvery confident\u201d about having sufficient money to afford food through December, with a stunning 5.6 million households struggling to put food on the table during Thanksgiving week, according to a pandemic survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The crisis of food insecurity has slammed Black and Latino communities the hardest, as well as poor people living in remote \u201cfood deserts\u201d<\/em> where affordable and healthy food is less accessible. The same individuals who have suffered from the economic impact of the pandemic, including seniors and people with chronic disease, are also at the highest risk of major coronavirus-associated illness.<\/p>\n

The report noted that even prior to the pandemic, over 37 million people \u2013 including over 11 million children \u2013 lived in homes that were food insecure.<\/p>\n

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Elias Marat – December 23, 2020 A new analysis has found that 54 million people in the United States, including 18 million children, will lack access to sufficient food by the end of the year. The report from U.S.-based anti-hunger group Feeding America underscores the extent to which chronic food scarcity and malnourishment has surged … Continue reading 54 Million Americans \u2013 Including 18 Million Kids \u2013 To Lack Access to Sufficient Food by Year\u2019s End<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,22,15478,7951,15477],"class_list":["post-19279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-food-scarcity","tag-malnourishment","tag-sufficient-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-50X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19281,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279\/revisions\/19281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}