Military families face unique financial challenges and are thus vulnerable to food insecurity. This is felt acutely among women veterans, veterans of color and military spouses, who are typically women.
Cadets reunited with their families on July 4, 2017, on one of their last days of training at Fort Knox, Ky., for Cadet Summer Training. (Nicholas Bafia / U.S. Army Flickr)
Soon, Americans will celebrate Independence Day—a day that provides an opportunity to honor the sacrifices that those in the military, and their families, make in service to the United States. Certainly, we owe them our commitment that they will not live lives of instability and financial insecurity—including food insecurity. For almost one-third of our currently serving military families, and approximately one-fourth of American’s veterans, that commitment has not been honored.