It’s hard to divulge an inability to put food on the table. Shestock/Tetra images via Getty Images Cassandra M. Johnson, Texas State University; Amanda C. McClain, San Diego State University, and ...

Poor nutrition in the US causes more than 600,000 deaths and an estimated $1.1 trillion in health care spending and lost productivity annually, as well as profound health disparities. Food Is Medicine ...

The USDA announced plans to discontinue future Household Food Security reports, ending the annual supplemental survey that, among other things, was used as the government’s official statistic on “food ...

Some Latino parents respond inaccurately to surveys measuring food insecurity nationwide, potentially skewing results of the annual reviews for one of the fastest-growing demographic groups in the ...

More than a quarter of military families polled in the most recent annual survey by a leading aid organization for service members and veterans said they consistently struggle to put food on the table ...

Building off the previous month’s survey, the December 2023 Consumer Food Insights Report digs deeper into the relationships between food-date labels and the decision to discard food. The report also ...

Two recent surveys of consumers show record lows in confidence of the safety of the U.S. food supply. In a Gallup poll, 28 percent of survey respondents do not have much confidence, and 14 percent ...

Fewer Baltimore-area residents experienced food insecurity last year than in 2023 even though researchers found profound racial disparities with hunger and access to grocery stores, according to the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The federal government has conducted the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module for more than 25 years. The data collected annually from about 50,000 U.S. households helps form ...

Cassandra M. Johnson received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the research in this article. In addition, she receives external funding through research grants from the U.S.