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

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this report provides information on food insecurity among children in the United States. Researchers found that around 85 percent of households with food-insecure children had a working adult, including 70 percent with a full-time worker. Around 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. Federal food and nutrition assistance programs provided benefits to four out of five low-income, food-insecure households with children.