Food Insecurity in Households with Children - Prevalence, Severity, and Household Characteristics - Bog - Paperback

Food Insecurity in Households with Children - Prevalence, Severity, and Household Characteristics

Eighty-four percent of U.S. households with children were food secure throughout 2007, meaning that they had consistent access to adequate food for active, healthy lives for all household members. Nearly 16 percent of households with children were food insecure sometime during the year, including 8.3 percent in which children were food insecure and 0.8 percent in which one or more children experienced very low food security-the most severe food-insecure condition measured by the U.S. Department of..