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    Who is hungry in America? The pandemic has changed the answer.

    Mar 31, 2021 3 minutes
    Volunteers (from left) Jean Straccia, Brenda Lee, Amelia Singh, and Claudette Mercurio Ash load cars with donations at a food pantry run by the First Congregational Church of Revere on May 5, 2020, in Massachusetts. Due to increased need during the pandemic, the pantry relocated to Rumens Marsh Academy to serve more people.

    Before the pandemic, rates of food insecurity in the United States had been declining during the longest economic expansion in the country’s history. The percentage of households that were food insecure for at least some portion of the year had dropped from 14.9% in 2011 to 10.5% in 2019, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

    But within those households, that still represented 35.2 million Americans worried about a low-quality diet or even when they would get their next meal. 

    And now, over the past year, the pandemic has multiplied the number of people who face food

    Why are so many people food insecure?Who is hungry in the United States today?What is being done to tackle food insecurity? How has the pandemic affected responses to food insecurity?

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