USDA: Food Insecurity Unchanged Between 2019 and 2020

The USDA recently released it's annual look at household food security.

"In 2020 the prevalence of food insecurity was unchanged from 2019. The prevalence was 10.5 % of US households. In 2020, 3.9% of US households had very low food security, and that was not significantly different from 4.1% in 2020," noted USDA economic researcher Alisha Coleman-Jensen. She added there were year-over-year increases.

"The prevalence of household food insecurity, meaning that either adults or children or both were food insecure, increased for all households with children from 13.6% in 2019 to 14.8% in 2020." In addition "In 2020 children along with adults suffered instances of very low food security in .8% of households with children. That's up from .6 % in 2019." Coleman-Jensen added.

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