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As previously covered in a WHES article, on September 20, 2025, the USDA announced that they would no longer be collecting the annual data measuring household food insecurity and cancelling the Household Food Security Reports. This means that the 2024 report will be the last under the current format...
A new Jan. 6 report from the think tank, CSIS, reviews the recent U.S. Government study about hunger in America, noting that this until-now annual food security or hunger report will no longer be conducted by the US Government which deemed it political and inducing fear. Caitlin Welsh, the author...
Deaths among Americans caused by malnutrition and hunger have increased 600% according to the Washington Post and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as reported by Andrew van Darn on Jan. 5, 2026, who finds that the increase is seen "across the board. Every state, every educat...
Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity As part of its mission to educate about hunger, WHES has put together an index of publicly available lesson plans on hunger and food insecurity. Whether you are a school teacher, a homeschooling parent, a daycare wo...
In an opinion editorial for the Des Moines Register second-year corn and soybean farmer Sarah Tweeten explores the pressures US farmers currently face including price drops, cost increases for equipment and inputs like fertilizer, trade uncertainty, debt, and the shutd...
By: WHES Board (*Note this post was updated from its original Feb 18, 2025 version to add the two new pages with DEC resources.) American Taxpayers often have questions about how funds for foreign aid work. In early 2025 there has also been claims -- and false inform...
In the United States, domestic hunger has been surveyed annually by the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, since 1995. For 30 years, the USDA's Economic Research Service has measured the level of food insecurity among U.S. households. On September 20, 2025, the USDA announced tha...
The U.S. School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program are the largest child nutrition programs in America, providing nutritious meals to some 30 million children.1 The 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act helped improve the nutritional quality of school breakfast and...
A recent report by Dr. Claudia Parvanta, reviews the implications of the current U.S. Administration's May 2025 "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) report for children's diets and nutritional education in the U.S. Responding to a request from the Social Marketing Quarterly editorial team, the auth...
About 13.5% of U.S. households or nearly 18 million families experienced food insecurity in 2023. Food insecurity manifests as a person's uncertainty of accessing sufficient and nutritious food. It is increasingly recognized as a series risk factor for mental health. A recent cross-sectio...
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