Food insecurity among households with children slightly rose between 2023 and 2024, according to recently released data from an annual report on household food security released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to the report, in 2024 14.1 million children lived in households experiencing food insecurity. That is an increased over 2023, when 13.8 million children lived in households experiencing food insecurity. Both numbers are a sharp increase over 2019, when 10.7 million children lived in households experiencing food insecurity.
Food-insecure households are defined by the USDA as those that have experienced difficulty at some point during the year to provide “enough food for all their members because of a lack of resources.”
The annual USDA report will be the last unless Congress intervenes, since the agency announced in September that it will no longer produce future studies. In that announcement, the USDA said “these redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger.”
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