A new report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics tracks 40 key indicators measuring children’s economic circumstances, health, physical environment and safety, family and social environment, behavior, and education. Some troubling statistics include: In 2007, the poverty rate for children rose from 17% to 18% from the previous year and 12.4 million children in America - or 17% of all kids - live in households that are food-insecure.
The Witness to Hunger program armed 40 mothers with video cameras and set them out to document their lives and what it takes to feed a family in tight times. “These women are the experts on what it’s like to deal with the consequences of what our lawmakers decide,” says the program’s creator Marianna Chilton. On June 2, 2009, these experts took on Capitol Hill.
With the nation's third-highest hunger rate, Oregon's Childhood Hunger Initiative wants health care providers to ask themselves whether hunger could be behind some of their patients' problems.
The federal school nutrition programs are the second largest federal funding source for public schools (after Title I), but that doesn't stop schools from losing money on nutrition programs. Many districts are considering tough choices, even as more families rely on the programs. The New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project has the only searchable and downloadable source of district-level federal school nutrition data around. (Click on a state to find the information.)
CFK Reports From: Release of the Ten Point Plan To End Childhood Hunger In The Nation's Capital Event: Press Conference Organized By: DC Hunger Solutions, The Food Research and Action Center, and Share Our Strength Where/When: Kennedy Recreational Center; April 18, 2006
Hunger advocates, politicians, students, teachers, parents and bureaucrats from Washington D.C. gathered to witness the public presentation of the city's plan to end childhood hunger in the nation's capital. Kim Perry, founding Director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, kicked of the event by questioning the crowd, "Guess what?" She answered her own question, "We are going to end childhood hunger in D.C."
The largest and most comprehensive study of hunger to date contains some stunning findings. As many as 27 million people, including 9 million children, get emergency food help each year from America's Second Harvest. About 36 percent of adults served are employed. Many families who experience food insecurity say they've had to choose between buying food and paying for their utilities, rent or mortgage, or medical care. Food pantries and emergency service organizations rely heavily on volunteers to get their work done.
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