Rate Of U.S. 'Food Insecurity' Stubbornly High

A shopper shops for food at a grocery store in Illinois.  CREDIT: BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

Despite an improving economy, many Americans struggle to get enough good food.

huffingtonpost.com - by Arthur Delaney - September 9, 2015

WASHINGTON -- Fourteen percent of U.S. households lacked access to enough good food at some point last year, according to the latest annual food insecurity estimate from the federal government. . . .

. . . despite an improving economy, the rate is much higher than the 11.1 percent seen in 2007, before the onset of the Great Recession. 

"It's just appalling that in this country -- when at least from a GDP point of view we have a larger economy than we did before the recession -- we have millions more people struggling with hunger," James Weill, president of the Food Research & Action Center, an anti-hunger advocacy group, said in an interview. 

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CLICK HERE - RESEARCH REPORT - USDA - Household Food Security in the United States in 2014