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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Eliminate very low food security in children — NWS‑02

Status: Getting worse

  
Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
1.02 percent (2022)

Target:
0.00 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
0.59 percent of households with children under 18 years had very low food security among children in 2018

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Eliminate very low food security among children

Target-Setting Method
Projection

Data Source:  Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS), Census and USDA/ERS

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Summary

Children in the United States with very low food security often don’t have enough to eat. This is linked to negative health outcomes and may cause children to have trouble in school. Giving more people benefits through nutrition assistance programs, increasing benefit amounts, and reducing unemployment may help reduce very low food security in children.

Topics:  Nutrition and Healthy Eating, Economic Stability, Social and Community Context

Workgroup: Nutrition and Weight Status Workgroup

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