Hunger Facts

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Hunger Facts

• In the United States

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• 38 million Americans are living with
• hunger or on the brink of hunger.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• 23 million Americans receive emergency food
  assistance from Americas Second Harvest each
  year.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• In 2004 more than 13.8 million, or 19, of
  American children resided in food insecure
  households, meaning they were hungry
• or at risk of hunger. 
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• The 2003 child poverty rate in
• rural areas was 20.1 percent.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• According to USDA estimates, 7 million or 17.6
  of households with children under age 18 were
  food insecure in 2004.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• Research indicates that even mild under-nutrition
  experienced by young children during critical
  periods of growth may lead to reductions in
  physical growth and affect brain development.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• Senior citizens comprised 25 percent
• of clients at emergency food programs
• located in non-metropolitan areas.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• America's Second Harvest, The Nation's Food Bank
  Network, the nation's largest hunger relief
  charity, estimated that 32.1 percent of all
  client households served reside in suburban
  areas.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• The poverty rate for people living in the
  suburbs, 9.1 percent in 2003, remained unchanged
  from 2002, although their number in poverty
  increased from 13.3 million in 2002 to 13.8
  million in 2003.
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• According to the most recent survey on hunger and
  homelessness conducted by the Conference of
  Mayors, 34 of adults requesting emergency food
  assistance were employed. 
• From Americassecondharvest.org

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• We have the means. The financial costs to end
  hunger are relatively slight. The United Nations
  Development Program estimates that the basic
  health and nutrition needs of the world's poorest
  people could be met for an additional
• 13 billion a year.
• Animal lovers in the United States and Europe
  spend more than that on pet food each year.
• (from www.bread.org)