Child Food Insecurity in the United States: 2005-2007

This issue brief from Feeding America offers an estimate on the prevalence of food insecurity among children in the country. The estimates were calculated from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS FSS) for 2005-2007. Researchers estimate that 12.5 million children in the United States from 2005 to 2007 were food insecure, which equates to about 17 percent of children under the age of 18.