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The Reference Shelf: Food Insecurity & Hunger in the United States

Table of Contents

Feeding the Masses




1 Poverty, Unemployment, and Underemployment




The Economic Dimension of America’s Food Problems




Food Insecurity in the U.S. by the Numbers




U.S. Is a Land of Plenty, So Why Do Millions of Americans Still Go Hungry?




America’s Dirty Little Secret: 42 Million People Are Suffering from Hunger




World Hunger Is Still Not Going Down After Three Years and Obesity Is Still Growing




2 Supplementing Nutrition




Supplementing Food for Families and Children




Trump Fights in Court to Block Pandemic Food Aid for Lowest-Income Americans




Making SNAP Healthier with Food Incentives and Disincentives Could Improve Health and Save Costs




Why Are More Schools Going After Families for Lunch Debt?




Debt Collectors Over Kids’ School Lunch Bills? It’s Real




Schools Are Shaming Kids Who Can’t Afford Lunch, but There Are Ways to Stop It




3 Finding Food




Food Deserts and the Search for Nutrition




Everything You Need to Know About Food Deserts




Eliminating Food Deserts Won’t Help Poorer Americans Eat Healthier




The Fight to Eliminate Food Deserts in St. Louis




It’s Not the Food Deserts: It’s the Inequality




The COVID-19 Crisis Has Already Left Too Many Children Hungry in America




A Crisis Within a Crisis: Food Insecurity and COVID-19




Study: 29 Million American Adults Don’t Have Enough to Eat—Nearly a Threefold Increase from Two Years




Covid-19 Pandemic Is the First Time 40% of Americans Have Experienced Food Insecurity




4 The World’s Problem




Global Factors Contributing to Hunger




Climate Change and Global Hunger




World Hunger Has Risen for Three Straight Years, and Climate Change Is a Cause




Trump’s Trade Wars Have Made Bad Agriculture Policies Worse




Food Banks Win in a Trump Trade War




Tackling Hunger at Home and Abroad Because Our Food Policy Is Our Foreign Policy




5 Finding Solutions




Efforts to Combat Hunger and Food Insecurity in the United States




Why Community-Owned Grocery Stores Like Co-Ops Are the Best Recipe for Revitalizing Food Deserts




Neglected Crops Could Be Global Solution for Food Insecurity




The Solution to Food Insecurity Is Food Sovereignty




GMOs Are an Ally in a Changing Climate




Urban Farming Is the Future of Agriculture




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