Hunger rose for Latino and Black families in 2020 despite federal pandemic aid.
Latino families with children facing hunger jumped 28% to more than one in five and one in four Black households were food insecure in 2020.
One in four Black households with children were food insecure at some point in 2020, meaning they had to skip a meal or had less to feed their families — an 18% increase versus 2019. Twenty percent of Americans received charitable food assistance in 2020, according to Feeding America, the largest non-profit network of food banks in the country.“In 2020, we saw public health and economic impacts, but there were also extra resources available to households,” said Alisha Coleman-Jensen, social science analyst for USDA’s Economic Research Service.
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