Characteristics of the Food Insecure Sample Clauses

Characteristics of the Food Insecure. To combat food insecurity in the United States, it is imperative to understand not only where households are located in relation to adequate food sources, but also the demographics of the households and individuals served by federal and private nutrition assistance programs. In the most recent CPS, conducted in December 2013 by the USDA ERS, of the 54,000 households surveyed, 42,147 households completed the food security supplement. Based on those results, an estimated 14.3% of all US households are food insecure, which is a not statistically significant decrease from 14.5% of households in 2012. There has been a statistically significant decline in household food insecurity since 2011 (14.9%) to 2013 (14.3%).6 Of households in the United States, 5.7% (6.8 million households) reported very low food security. The USDA defines very low food security as a household that is, “food insecure to the extent that eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and their food intake reduced…because they could not afford enough food.6 Then when looking at households with children that percentage increases to 19.5%, and among households headed by single women the percentage increases again to 34.4%.6 North Dakota (8.7%), Virginia (9.5%), and New Hampshire (10.2%) had the lowest 3-year prevalence rates of food insecurity from 2011-2013, on the other hand, Arkansas (21.2%), Mississippi (21.1%), and Texas (18.0%) are the leading states for highest 3-year prevalence of food insecurity. While food insecurity may seem clustered in the southern states, food insecurity exists in every county of each state in America.61 Several factors influence why an individual or family may be or become food insecure. Because food insecurity is a condition that arises from lack of money and other resources to acquire food, the factors associated with food insecurity include: geographic location, unemployment, high housing costs, low wages, race, gender, education level, criminal background, poverty, lack of access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP), formally known as food stamps, other federal nutrition assistance programs (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program), and medical or health costs.14
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