The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.
Last year, nearly 1 in 10 New Yorkers, or 9.7%, reported food insufficiency an increase from 2021 when 8.6%, or 1 in 12 New Yorkers, said they experienced.
A study conducted by Poverty Solutions, a University of Michigan research organization, shows that the number of impoverished working class families in Detroit being evicted have returned to rates that existed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New data from Children’s HealthWatch shows that food insecurity grew by 12% in February, after child tax credit payments under a federal COVID-19 relief plan ended.